Long-term sequelae in children treated for brain tumors: impairments, disability, and handicap.

abstract：:Down syndrome (DS) is an important risk factor associated with acute leukemia (AL). The presence of polymorphisms that reduce 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) activity has been linked to the multifactorial leukemogenic process. The authors have conducted a study to test whether 677C-->T and/or 1298A-->...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Amorim MR,Zanrosso CW,Magalhães IQ,Pereira SC,Figueiredo A,Emerenciano M,Pinheiro VR,d'Andréa ML,Orioli IM,Koifman S,Pombo-de-Oliveira MS

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased incidence of malignancies, especially acute leukemia, in Down syndrome has been clearly established. The association of Hodgkin's disease with Down syndrome has not been extensively documented, and only a few cases have been reported. We present here a case report of Hodgkin's disease in an 11-year-old f...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Kusumakumary P,Jyothirmayi R,Chellam VG,Krishnan NM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single institution's experience of three patients with nephroblastoma extending via the inferior vena cava to the right heart is described. The case reports and the pertinent literature illustrate that preoperative failure to detect the intracardial extension increases the risk of right outflow obstruction and pulmo...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Kremens B,Sadony V,Goepel M,Hellinger A,Havers W

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last 5 years massive chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation have been increasingly explored in the treatment of pediatric solid tumors, mainly for neuroblastoma, Ewing's sarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, Wilms' tumor, germ cell tumors, osteosarcoma, and retinoblastoma. Although the disease course ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Yaniv I,Bouffet E,Irle C,Negrier S,Biron P,Favrot M,Philip I,Brunat-Mentigny M,Philip T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Department of Oncology at Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez (HIMFG) was the first unit in our country, and one of the first in Latin America, to specialize in the management of children with cancer. The HIMFG is part of the National Institutes of Health of Mexico, and is a reference hospital with research...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Medina-Sanson A,Martínez-Avalos A,Gallegos-Castorena S,Juárez-Villegas LE,González-Montalvo P,Perales-Arroyo A,Gallegos-González E,Ayometzi-Ouchi MT

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Intravenous (IV) ferric iron (Fe)-carbohydrate complexes are used for treating Fe deficiency in children with iron-refractory iron-deficiency anemia (IRIDA). An optimal treatment has yet to be determined. There are relatively little publications on the responsiveness to IV iron therapy in children with IRIDA...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Akin M,Atay E,Oztekin O,Karadeniz C,Karakus YT,Yilmaz B,Erdogan F

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study was to determine the efficacy of vincristine and irinotecan in children with relapsed hepatoblastoma (HB). METHODS:A total of 10 patients with relapsed HB were enrolled. Three patients were excluded. Patients received irinotecan 50 mg/m(2)/day, day 1-5 and vincristine 1.5 mg/m(2)/day, day 1, repeate...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Zhang YT,Feng LH,Zhong XD,Wang LZ,Chang J

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor XIII deficiency is a very rare bleeding disorder. We report here on the clinical outcome of a young child with intracranial bleeding due to factor XIII deficiency. Clinicians should bear in mind that severe factor XIII deficiency is associated with a significant risk of unexpected intracranial hemorrhage (ICH)....

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Bay A,Sirikci A,Dogan A,Leblebisatan G,Yilmaz F

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homozygous beta-thalassemia is usually characterized by severe anemia requiring regular blood transfusion for survival. For homozygous patients with milder clinical manifestations and no dependence on transfusion therapy, the term thalassemia intermedia is usually applied. Genetic mechanisms that may ameliorate the cl...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Kanavakis E,Traeger-Synodinos J,Tzetis M,Metaxotou-Mavromati A,Ladis V,Kattamis C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the efficacy of hydroxyurea treatment in the prevention of vaso-occlusive crises among children and teenagers with severe sickle cell anemia and sickle cell beta-thalassemia. Nineteen children and young adults with severe sickle cell disease were enrolled to the hydroxyurea treatment trial. The in...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Koren A,Segal-Kupershmit D,Zalman L,Levin C,Abu Hana M,Palmor H,Luder A,Attias D

更新日期：1999-05-01 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：:Euthyroid sick syndrome is related to profound changes in thyroid metabolism induced by nonthyroidal diseases. To determine whether children with newly diagnosed Hodgkin disease might present thyroid abnormalities and to establish their predictive value, the authors performed regular thyroid function testing. Seven ch...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Mohn A,Di Marzio A,Cerruto M,Angrilli F,Fioritoni C,Chiarelli F

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three children with malignant solid tumors developed hyponatremia with renal sodium wasting associated with other signs of tubular dysfunction, such as hypokalemia or hypomagnesemia, a few days after cis-diammine dichloroplatinum (CDDP) administration. The normalization of serum electrolyte disturbances was obtained w...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Vassal G,Rubie H,Kalifa C,Hartmann O,Lemerle J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ataxia-telangiectasia is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by progressive cerebellar ataxia, oculocutaneous telangiectasia, immunodeficiency, high incidence of cancer, and increased sensitivity to ionizing radiation. The authors report a case of dysgerminoma in a child with high alpha-fetoprotein, CA125 and...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Koksal Y,Caliskan U,Ucar C,Yurtcu M,Artac H,Ilerisoy-Yakut Z,Reisli I

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All pediatric osteosarcomas treated in our hospital between 1985 and 1995 were reviewed. There were 26 patients, 15 males and 11 females, aged 20 or less at diagnosis. All had limb primaries. Nineteen patients had localized disease and seven presented with metastases. Intensive multiagent chemotherapy was given both p...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Kwong DL,Ha SY,Chau KY,Choi PH,Chan GC,Kwong PW,Lau YL

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study is to evaluate the etiologic and clinical characteristics, treatment regimens, and outcome of the patients with intracranial tumors presenting with central diabetes insipidus (DI). Sixty-nine patients with intracranial tumors presenting with central DI between 1972 and 2012 were retrospectively ev...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Varan A,Atas E,Aydın B,Yalçın B,Akyüz C,Kutluk T,Büyükpamukçu M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern treatment protocols lead to complete remission in a high proportion of patients with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). However, a large number of them show a relapse of the disease. Treatment failure in these patients is mainly attributable to de novo or acquired resistance to a wide variety of cyto...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Kourti M,Vavatsi N,Gombakis N,Tzimagiorgis G,Sidi V,Koliouskas D,Athanassiadou F

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatoblastoma, the commonest primary malignant liver tumor in infants and children, is usually associated with elevated serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels. The authors sought to determine if AFP levels can be used to modify treatment, thereby avoiding the wait for formal imaging studies and prolonged suboptimal tre...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Sayar D,Yaniv I,Goshen Y,Cohen IJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare and fatal hematological syndrome that causes a disturbance of the immune system. Overall mortality of HLH is greater than 50% and the majority of patients who die do so within the first 8 weeks of chemotherapy treatment. To find clinical parameters relating to high-ri...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Dao AT,Luong VT,Nguyen TT,Huynh QT,Phan TT,Lam MT,Ngoma AM,Koriyama C

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a frequently encountered disease in childhood. Recent reports pointed to the benefit of high-dose steroid in ITP treatment since it resulted in a better outcome in a shorter time than IV immunoglobulin therapy. In the authors' clinic, mainly after 1984, megadose methyl prednisolone (MD...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Yetgin S,Yenicesu IC,Ersoy F

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-six patients with Ewing's sarcoma were analyzed as to the role of radiation therapy. Fifty-eight patients (P group) had removal of the involved part of the bone after preoperative chemotherapy, and 28 (NP group) had local treatment either at the same time or before chemotherapy. Thirty-six of 58 P-group patient...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Jereb B,Ong RL,Mohan M,Caparros B,Exelby P

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:A prospective, population-based registration of children with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) was performed in Norway in 1996 and 1997. Ninety-two cases were identified, indicating an incidence of 5.3 per 100,000 children under 15 years. The sex ratio (female/male) was 1.2/1. Fifty-six percent presented with cut...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Zeller B,Helgestad J,Hellebostad M,Kolmannskog S,Nystad T,Stensvold K,Wesenberg F

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bloodstream infections (BSI) represent one of the most serious complications in patients in the hematology-oncology unit. In this study, the prevalence, distribution, drug sensitivity profiles, and clinical outcome of BSI were analyzed in pediatric patients with hematological malignancies. Patients admitted to the ped...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Chen S,Liu S,Yuan X,Mai H,Lin J,Wen F

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1973 and 1991, 10 patients with locally advanced [stages III and IV] nasopharyngeal carcinoma were treated at the Northern Israel Oncology Center. All patients were treated with wide-field irradiation to the primary tumor, including the base of skull, neck, and supraclavicular region. After 1984, 6 patients al...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Arush MW,Stein ME,Rosenblatt E,Lavie R,Kuten A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outlining the treatment for an unclassifiable lymphoid malignancy is often difficult. A highly undifferentiated lymphomatous mass that relapsed in spite of intense chemotherapy and autologous transplant is reported. At relapse, there was differentiation into myeloid lineage. Though remission was achieved with AML-type...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Anoop P,Lancaster DL,Ethell ME,Potter MN,Wotherspoon A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endocrinological complications in β-thalassemia major patients do affect the life quality to a large extend. In this study, the endocrinological complications of 47 β-thalassemia patients, who have been followed-up at our hospital's pediatric hematology department, were evaluated. Out of β-thalassemia major cases ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Isik P,Yarali N,Tavil B,Demirel F,Karacam GB,Sac RU,Fettah A,Ozkasap S,Kara A,Tunc B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we aimed to determine serum adrenomedullin levels and compare them with levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT). Cancer patients aged 0-18 years who experienced febrile neutropenia attacks were included in the study. Adrenomedullin, CRP, and PCT were analyzed at admission, day 3, and ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Demirkaya M,Tugcu D,Akcay A,Aydogan G,Akıcı F,Salcioglu Z,Ekmekci H,Sevinir B,Balci Ekmekci O

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blast cell chromosome abnormalities at presentation in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are common, and different patterns are known to be related to outcome. In contrast, the frequency and importance of further changes at the time of relapse remain unclear. Blast cell karyotype evolution was therefore stu...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Vora AJ,Potter AM,Anderson LM,Lilleyman JS

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) of the liver is rare in children, and it is usually diagnosed through a biopsy of the liver or hepatectomy. The authors report a case of a 10-year-old girl with multiple focal nodular hyperplasia lesions of the liver after the completion of tumor therapy for advanced neuroblastoma, and ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Sugito K,Kusafuka T,Kawashima H,Uekusa S,Furuya T,Ohashi K,Inoue M,Ikeda T,Koshinaga T,Maebayashi T

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00