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    Medical and Pediatric Oncology: Volume 41, Issue 2

    103-180
    August 2003
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Original Articles

Treatment of Epstein-Barr virus-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (EBV-HLH) in young adults: A report from the HLH studyl center

Shinsaku Imashuku MD,  Kikuko Kuriyama MD,  Rika Sakai MD,  Yoshitaka Nakao MD,  Shin-ichi Masuda MD,  Norimasa Yasuda MD,  Fumio Kawano MD,  Kimikazu Yakushijin MD,  Akiko Miyagawa MD,  Taisei Nakao MD,  Tomoko Teramura MD,  Yasuhiro Tabata MD,  Akira Morimoto MD,  Shigeyoshi Hibi MD, 
  • Pages: 103-109
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Impaired adrenal function after glucocorticoid therapy in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Kamilla B. Petersen MSc,  Jørn Müller MD, PhD,  Mette Rasmussen MSc, PhD,  Kjeld Schmiegelow MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 110-114
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Editorial

Treating children with chronic myeloid leukemia in the Imatinib era: A therapeutic dilemma?

Ian Thornley MD,  John P. Perentesis MD,  Stella M. Davies MB, BS, PhD,  Franklin O. Smith MD,  Martin Champagne MD,  Jeffrey M. Lipton MD, 
  • Pages: 115-117
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Original Articles

Local control of parameningeal rhabdomyosarcoma: Outcomes in non-complete responders to chemoradiation†

Arnold C. Paulino MD,  Nancy Bauman MD,  James H. Simon MD,  Thanh X. Nguyen MD,  Justine M. Ritchie PhD,  Raymond Tannous MD, 
  • Pages: 118-122
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Role of radiosurgery in craniopharyngiomas: A preliminary report†

Beatriz E. Amendola MD, FACR,  Aizik Wolf MD,  Sammie R. Coy PhD,  Marco A. Amendola MD, 
  • Pages: 123-127
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Childhood Cancer Etiology

Recent reports

Julie A. Ross PhD,  Stella M. Davies MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 128-131
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Perspective

A tale of three princes and two physicists—the importance of “Why?”†

Giulio J. D'Angio MD,  Peter C. Adamson MD, 
  • Pages: 132-135
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Topical Topics

Training subspecialty nurses in developing countries: Methods, outcome, and cost

Judith A. Wilimas MD,  Nora Donahue RN, BS,  Georgette Chammas EdD, RN,  Maryam Fouladi MD,  Lynne J. Bowers PhD,  Raul C. Ribeiro MD, 
  • Pages: 136-140
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Commentary: Symposium on new drugs in cancer therapy October 29–November 2, 2001

Audrey E. Evans MD, 
  • Pages: 141-144
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Misleading Leads

Periorbital alveolar soft part sarcoma with radiologic features mimicking haemangioma

Winnie C.W. Chu FRCR,  Robert G. Howard FRANZCR,  Derek J. Roebuck FRCR, FRANZCR,  Ki-wai Chik MRCP,  Chi-kong Li FRCP, 
  • Pages: 145-146
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Proceedings from the Tumor Board

Proceedings of the Tumor Board of Children's Hospital "A. Kyriakou," Athens, Greece: Neuroblastoma metastatic to the lungs at diagnosis

M. Baka MD,  A. Pourtsidis MD,  D. Bouhoutsou MD,  M. Hasiotou MD,  K. Scondras MD,  U. Karentzou MD,  H. Vasilatou-Kosmidis MD, 
  • Pages: 147-150
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Brief Reports

Pineal dysfunction (low melatonin production) as a cause of sudden death in a long-term survivor of langerhans cell histiocytosis?

Shinsaku Imashuku MD,  Yoshiko Morimoto MD,  Akira Morimoto MD,  Tohru Yamamoto MD,  Shigeyoshi Hibi MD,  Shinjiro Todo MD, 
  • Pages: 151-153
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Clear cell sarcoma of the kidney in a newborn†

Stefano Mazzoleni MD,  Luca Vecchiato MD,  Rita Alaggio MD,  Giovanni Cecchetto MD,  Carlo Zorzi MD,  Modesto Carli MD, 
  • Pages: 153-155
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

A novel cytogenetic abnormality in a solid and cystic papillary tumour of the pancreas

Mark D. Stringer MS, FRCS,  Paul Roberts DipRCPath,  Suzanne M. Davison MRCP, MRCPCH,  Caroline Gannon MRCPath, 
  • Pages: 155-158
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Chronic myeloid leukemia in a patient with chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura: Rapid response to imatinib mesylate (STI571)

Shinsaku Imashuku MD,  Akira Morimoto MD,  Kikuko Kuriyama MD,  Gen Kano MD,  Shigeyoshi Hibi MD,  Shinjiro Todo MD, 
  • Pages: 159-160
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Radiation-induced sarcoma of the meninges 15 years after radiation therapy for hodgkin disease?

May Sarvi DO, MS,  Carolyn Freeman MB, BS, FRCPC,  Marie-Christine Guiot MD, 
  • Pages: 161-162
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Brachytherapy control of a hemangiopericytoma of the tongue in a child†

Paul J. Chuba MD, PhD,  Merlin R. Hamre MD,  James Fontanesi MD,  Frederick Rector MD,  Mason Bond MD,  Carolyn Freeman MBBS, FRCPC, 
  • Pages: 163-165
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

International Note

Transfusion-associated hepatitis in children with hematologic malignancies in Northern India

B. Arora MD,  Y.K. Joshi MD, PhD,  R.N. Salhan MD,  L.S. Arya MD,  S. Prakash PhD, 
  • Pages: 166-168
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Ethical Issues

Commentary on the SIOP report—valid informed consent and participative decision making in children with cancer and their parents†

Sheila M. Farnell PhD, 
  • Pages: 169-170
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Abstracts

Pediatric neurooncology reports of the 2002 meetings of the German Brain Tumor Group: Experimental neurooncology held in Göttingen, March 8–9 and clinical research held in regensburg, April 18–21

Johannes Wolff MD,  Sabine Wagner MD, 
  • Pages: 171-176
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Epilogue

Epilogue

Johannes Wolff MD, 
  • Page: 176
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Letters to the Editor

Plasmapheresis as treatment for transient iatrogenic severe hyperlipidemia in a child with leukemia

Gabriele Kropshofer MD,  G. Wehl MD,  W. Högler MD,  B. Meister MD,  A. Heitger MD,  W. Nussbaumer MD, 
  • Page: 177
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Relapse eighteen and one-half years after apparent cure of sarcoma botryoides of the vagina

Pablo Gonzalez Montalvo MD,  Norman Jaffe MD,  Eftekhari Farzin MD, 
  • Pages: 178-179
  • First Published: 19 June 2003

Amelanotic melanoma in a child with oculocutaneous albinism

Monica Terenziani MD,  Filippo Spreafico MD,  Annalisa Serra MD,  Marta Podda MD,  Stefano Cereda MD,  Filiberto Belli MD, 
  • Pages: 179-180
  • First Published: 19 June 2003