Pediatric Renal Cell Carcinoma

Authors and Disclosures

Kiersten M. Craig, Dix P. Poppas and Ardavan Akhavan

Komansky Children's Hospital, Institute for Pediatric Urology, New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Urology, New York City, New York, USA

Correspondence to
Ardavan Akhavan, MD, 525 East 68th Street, Box 94, Room F918, New York, NY 10065, USA. Tel: +1 212 746 5361; e-mail: Apa9010@med.cornell.edu

Conflicts of interest
There are no conflicts of interest.

Sidebar

Key Points

• Translocation tumors are predominant in pediatric RCC.

• Preoperative imaging is not a reliable indicator of tumor type or lymph node status involvement. Practitioners should have a low threshold for lymph node sampling.

• Complete lymph node resection has a more important role in pediatric patients than adult patients.

• Therapeutic receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors are a therapeutic opportunity for translocation tumors.