Abstract
Wilms’ tumor is one of the most common childhood solid malignancies,
which accounts for almost 95% of renal malignancies in pediatrics, and
classically arises from primitive metanephric cells. Exceptionally it
may occur at places other than kidneys. The estimated rate of
nephroblastoma outside the kidneys is almost 0.5 to 1% of Wilms’ tumor
cases. Extrarenal Wilms’ tumor occurs mostly in childhood. In this
article, we report a 3-year-old girl who first presented with spinal
dysraphism and a mass in the lumbar spinal cord with a histopathological
diagnosis of nephrogenic rest, and after one year, a Wilms tumor arose
in this location. When extrarenal wilms tumor located in the spine is
unlikely to be suspected preoperatively because it is embryologically
less intuitive. Thus, we report this case of a congenital Wilms tumor
associated with spinal dysraphism to increase awareness and describe
this malignant tumor’s clinical outcome.