A 6-year-old girl, postnephrectomy for a Wilms tumor, demonstrated a recurrence involving the liver and inferior vena cava by ultrasound. Reoperation for removal of the recurrence required further resection and a bypass using an ascending lumbar collateral as an outflow vessel.
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