Wilms, Max (1867–1918), German surgeon. Wilms held professorships at Basel, Switzerland, and at Leipzig and Heidelberg, Germany. He developed several operations, including resection of the ribs to produce depression of the chest and compression of the lungs (1911) and benign stricture of the common bile duct (1912). He described Wilms' tumor in 1899.
Medical Dictionary
Wilms' tumor
noun
Medical Definition of WILMS' TUMOR
: a malignant tumor of the kidney that primarily affects children and is made up of embryonic elements—called also nephroblastoma
Biographical Note for WILMS' TUMOR
Variants of WILMS' TUMOR
Wilms' tumor also Wilms's tumor \ˈvilmz-(əz-)\
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