What organ does Wilms' tumor affect in children?

What organ does Wilms' tumor affect in children? Correct Answer Kidney

Concept:-

  • Wilms tumor is a rare kidney cancer that mainly affects children.
  • Wilms tumor known as nephroblastoma, it is the most common cancer of the kidney in children.
  • Wilms' tumor most often affects children between the ages of 3 and 4 and becomes less common after the age of 5.
  • Wilms tumor most often occurs in only one kidney, but it can sometimes occur in both kidneys at the same time.
  • Wilms' tumor can spread to lymph nodes in the abdomen and lungs, and sometimes to the liver, but has not spread to the bones, bone marrow, or brain.

Additional Information 

ross structure

  • The kidney receives blood from paired renal arteries.
  • Draining is by renal vein.
  • Each kidney is attached to the ureter, which carries formed urine to the bladder.
  • The kidney is divided into the outer renal cortex and the inner renal medulla.

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  • Sympathetic and para-sympathetic innervations by renal plexus.
  • The functions units of the kidney are called Nephrons.

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