Management of cutaneous hemangiomas: a retrospective analysis of 1109 cases and comparison of conventional dose prednisolone with high-dose methylprednisolone therapy.

abstract：:This study investigated the influence of levamisole therapy on immunocompetent cells and lymphocyte reactivity to mitogens in 25 children with brain tumor. Eleven (11/25) patients were receiving chemotherapy and immunomodulating drug levamisole 3 months after neurosurgery, during maintenance chemotherapy, 2.5 mg/kg of...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Hajnzić TF,Kastelan M,Lukac J,Hajnzić T

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plexiform neurofibroma is a relatively common but potentially devastating manifestation of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF 1). A substantial number of plexiform neurofibroma causes morbidity. Various treatment modalities are considered to decrease pain. In this paper a case with plexiform neurofibroma causing severe pain...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Citak EC,Oguz A,Karadeniz C,Okur A,Memis L,Boyunaga O

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2-year-old girl with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) showing a t(4;11)(q21;q23) karyotype underwent allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) with the conditioning regimen of L-PAM (70 mg/m2/d for 3 days), busulfan (140 mg/m2/d for 2 days), and total body irradiation (12 Gy). On day 57, the patient developed p...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Takanashi M,Hibi S,Todo S,Sawada T,Tsunamoto K,Imashuku S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Venous thrombotic events (VTE) are a well-recognized complication in pediatric cancer patients. Population-based data on the incidence and characteristics of VTE in all pediatric cancer patients are limited. This information is crucial to identify patients at high risk and design targeted interventions accord...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Asyyed Z,MacDonald T,Digout C,Kulkarni K

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newborn infant presented with intraocular tumor that was clinically diagnosed as retinoblastoma and treated by exenteration of the globe. Within a few weeks however, a large abdominal mass was noted, which was found to involve the left kidney and right lobe of liver. Pathologic evaluation of the intraocular mass as ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Akhtar M,Ali MA,Sackey K,Bakry M,Johnson T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 7-year-old boy with prolonged and marked leukopenia diagnosed at 6 months of age is described. The polymorphonuclear cells presented no hypersegmented nuclei or concentrated nuclear chromatin, although vacuolated myeloid cells appeared in bone marrow smears. Neutrophils reversed in response to administration of G-CS...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Arai J,Wakiguchi H,Hisakawa H,Kubota H,Kurashige T

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake by positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging in sarcomas of adults has been reported. The current study aimed at defining the degree of (18)F-FDG uptake of pediatric sarcomas. This retrospective study included 29 patients (23 males, 6 females; mean a...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Walter F,Federman N,Apichairuk W,Nelson S,Phelps ME,Allen-Auerbach M,Walter MA,Czernin J

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of G-CSF after myelotoxic chemotherapy accelerates neutrophil recovery reducing the risk of febrile neutropenia. Current guidelines recommend initiating G-CSF 24 hours after myelotoxic chemotherapy. However, the optimal timing of post-chemotherapy G-CSF administration has not been elucidated. Our previous work...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Yankelevich M,Hoogstra DJ,Abrams J,Chu R,Bhambhani K,Taub JW

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A surveillance study was performed on the pattern and antimicrobial susceptibilities of microorganisms isolated from blood cultures in the main pediatric oncology unit in the United Arab Emirates. The only previous data were published in 1995. During 1998-2000, the pattern of bloodstream infection changed. Enterobacte...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Trad O,Jumaa PA,Afify Z

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The third International Conference on Immunotherapy in Pediatric Oncology was held in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, October 1-2, 2012. Major topics of the conference included (i) cellular therapies using antigen-specific and gene-modified T cells for targeting leukemia and pediatric solid tumors; (ii) overcoming hurdles an...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Brehm C,Huenecke S,Pfirrmann V,Rossig C,Mackall CL,Bollard CM,Gottschalk S,Schlegel PG,Klingebiel T,Bader P

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe clinical and CT features of L-asparaginase-associated pancreatitis (L-AP) and to correlate CT grades with clinical parameters. METHODS:A total of 16 children (M:F = 9:7; mean age, 8.1 years) who developed L-AP after L-asparaginase (L-asp) treatment and underwent abdominal CT scan were included. We ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Oh HJ,Im SA,Lee JW,Chung NG,Cho B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to establish reference values and factors associated with serum AFP elevation in infants. Five hundred twenty-four samples collected from infants up to the age of 2 years at the University Hospital Düsseldorf (Germany) were analyzed. At birth mean serum AFP levels were 41,687 ng/ml in 256 ter...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Blohm ME,Vesterling-Hörner D,Calaminus G,Göbel U

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the results of 58 children with ALL in 2CR after related (n = 31) or unrelated (n = 27) AHSCT. Characteristics at diagnosis and initial and after relapse antileukemic treatment were similar in the related donor (RD) and the unrelated donor (UD) groups. Conditioning consisted of TBI/CY +/- VP-16 for ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Muñoz A,Diaz-Heredia C,Diaz MA,Badell I,Verdeguer A,Martinez A,Gomez P,Perez-Hurtado JM,Bureo E,Fernandez-Delgado R,Gonzalez-Valentin ME,Maldonado MS

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although survival rates in childhood cancer have distinctly improved, pediatric cancer patients often experience various disease- and treatment-related side effects with long-term consequences. Despite current studies investigating inactivity and limitations in physical functioning and quality of life in pediatric can...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Beulertz J,Bloch W,Prokop A,Baumann FT

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperleukocytosis in patients with leukemia is associated with early mortality, especially due to the pulmonary and neurological complications of leukostasis. The prompt use of leukapheresis may improve patients' survival in the initial treatment period. The medical records of all previously untreated acute leukemia p...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Yilmaz D,Karapinar B,Karadaş N,Duyu M,Yazici P,Ay Y,Balkan C,Aydinok Y,Kavakli K

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with thalassemia intermedia (TI) experience many complications, of which the incidence varies greatly among cases. Considering the high prevalence of thalassemia in Iran, the study was carried out to determine the frequency of TI complications in Iranian patients and to find possible risk factors for each of ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Rafsanjani KA,Mafi N,Tafreshi RI

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the relation between clamping time and blood volume collected, and two enrichment systems of CD34+ stem cells from umbilical cord blood, to determine an excellent recovery with high proliferate ability and bone marrow reconstitution. After an obstetrician-based cord blood collection, the purificat...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Pafumi C,Bosco P,Cavallaro A,Farina M,Leonardi I,Pernicone G,Bandiera S,Russo A,Giardina P,Chiarenza M,Calogero AE

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1983 and 2008, prenatal diagnostic procedures for identifying hemoglobinopathies were performed in 947 at-risk fetuses. Seventy-six percent of the fetuses were at risk for β-thalassemia major and 16% for sickle cell anemia; only a small percentage (7%) were at risk for compound heterozygosity of β-thalassemia ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Beksac MS,Gumruk F,Gurgey A,Cakar N,Mumusoglu S,Ozyuncu O,Altay C

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At present, urinary vanillylmandelic acid (VMA) and/or homovanillic acid (HVA), metabolites of catecholamines, are the most sensitive diagnostic markers of neuroblastoma. They can be measured by the high-performance liquid chromatographic method, which has been used to screen for neuroblastoma in infants in Japan. Fro...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Numata K,Kusui H,Kawakatsu H,Kizaki Z,Sawada T

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known in the literature that cancer creates educationally related barriers for all children, which may or may not contribute to clinically relevant school problems. The goal of this study was to obtain a base rate for the characteristic pattern of school functioning for children with leukemia, so that the c...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Adamoli L,Deasy-Spinetta P,Corbetta A,Jankovic M,Lia R,Locati A,Fraschini D,Masera G,Spinetta JJ

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoor radiation, especially radon exposure, has been in focus in the public domain during the past several years. The growing concern among parents of children with cancer possibly having high radiation levels in their homes led us to study the levels of gamma- and alpha-radiation levels in the homes of a group of ch...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Stjernfeldt M,Samuelsson L,Ludvigsson J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is one of the familial cancers characterized by different tumors and hereditary TP53 mutations. The adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) association with acute leukemia is unusual in childhood, even in LFS. The authors here present a family with pR337P mutation in TP53 gene who had a child with ac...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Karakas Z,Tugcu D,Unuvar A,Atay D,Akcay A,Gedik H,Kayserili H,Dogan O,Anak S,Devecioglu O

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the mid-1960s intrathecal chemotherapy (methotrexate [MTX], cytarabine [Ara-C], or both, plus hydrocortisone) has constituted the standard approach to prophylaxis and treatment of central nervous system (CNS) leukemia and lymphoma. Intrathecal chemotherapy-related neurotoxicity has been described in a variable p...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： García-Tena J,López-Andreu JA,Ferrís J,Menor F,Mulas F,Millet E,Verdeguer A

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive fungal infection continues to pose a significant threat to immunocompromised patients, with cerebral aspergillosis being among the most feared ones. The authors describe an adolescent girl with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) with subsequent acute liver failure, who developed an aspergillus brain abscess. ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Sterba J,Prochazka J,Ventruba J,Kren L,Valik D,Burgetova D,Mudry P,Skotakova J,Blatny J

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most common in tropical regions, population migration has meant that sickle cell disease is now one of the most prevalent genetic diseases worldwide. The issues and challenges faced by physicians and patients have been discussed by an international group of experts representing 4 key regions: the USA, Europe,...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Vichinsky EP,Ohene-Frempong K,Thein SL,Lobo CL,Inati A,Thompson AA,Smith-Whitley K,Kwiatkowski JL,Swerdlow PS,Porter JB,Marks PW

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report on supernumerary nipples and various hematologic disorders in 7 patients [factor X deficiency (n = 1), factor XI deficiency (n = 2), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (n = 3), and acute myeloblastic leukemia (n = 1)]. They would like to draw attention to the association of supernumerary nipples with hema...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Aslan D,Gürsel T,Kaya Z

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FLT3 gene encodes a tyrosine kinase receptor that regulates proliferation and differentiation of hematopoietic cells. Recently, the internal duplication of FLT3 has been observed in hematological malignancies, suggesting the involvement of these mutations in leukemogenesis. The authors analyzed the expression of F...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Ishii E,Zaitsu M,Ihara K,Hara T,Miyazaki S

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of relapse were determined for 20 high-risk neuroblastoma patients treated with chemotherapy, surgery, primary and metastatic site radiation (21 Gray), myeloablative chemotherapy, peripheral blood stem cell rescue, and 13-cis-retinoic acid. The median follow-up duration after transplant is 21 months (range, 8...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Sangthawan D,DesRosiers PM,Randall ME,Robertson K,Goebel S,Fallon R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ewing's sarcoma is one of the most common malignant tumors of the skeletal system in children and young adults. It most frequently stems from the long bones of the extremities. However, though uncommon, extraosseous localization can be seen. Epidural extraosseous presentations are extremely rare. In this case, the aut...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Erkutlu I,Buyukhatipoglu H,Alptekin M,Ozsarac C,Buyukbese I,Gok A

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 20-year-old female developed a relapse of B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) as a mass in her left breast after 6 years of maintained continuous complete remission. No leukemic lesions were identified in other sites such as the bone marrow or cerebrospinal fluid. The relapsed leukemic cells in the breast...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Todo K,Morimoto A,Osone S,Nukina S,Ohtsuka T,Ishida H,Yoshihara T,Todo S

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00