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    Medical and Pediatric Oncology: Volume 41, Issue 5

    413-500
    November 2003
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Editorial

Race, ethnicity, and the Seer database

Martha Fiellin MPH,  Susan Chemerynski MPH,  Jonathan Borak MD, DABT, 
  • Pages: 413-414
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Perspective

A tribute to Odile Schweisguth, MD

Arty Coppes-Zantinga MA, 
  • Pages: 415-416
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Original Articles

Malignant germ cell tumors in childhood: Results of the first Italian cooperative study “TCG 91”†

Margherita Lo Curto MD,  Francesca Lumia MD,  Rita Alaggio,  Giovanni Cecchetto MD,  Piero Almasio MD,  Paolo Indolfi MD,  Fortunato Siracusa MD,  Serenella Bagnulo MD,  Bruno De Bernardi MD,  Tina De Laurentis MD,  Andrea Di Cataldo MD,  Paolo Tamaro MD, 
  • Pages: 417-425
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Regional cardiac wall motion abnormalities during and shortly after anthracyclines therapy

Livia Kapusta MD, PhD,  Jacqueline Groot-Loonen MD, PhD,  Johan M. Thijssen PhD,  Ruurd deGraaf PhD,  O. Daniëls MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 426-435
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Identification of children presenting with fever in chemotherapy-induced neutropenia at low risk for severe bacterial infection

Roland A. Ammann MD,  Andreas Hirt MD,  Annette Ridolfi Lüthy MD,  Christoph Aebi MD, 
  • Pages: 436-443
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Primary gastric Burkitt lymphoma in childhood: Associated with Helicobacter pylori?

Maria Moschovi MD,  Damianos Menegas MD,  Kalliopi Stefanaki MD,  Catherine Van-Vliet Constantinidou MD,  Fotini Tzortzatou-Stathopoulou MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 444-447
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Commentary

Proceedings of the Conference on the Effects of Radiotherapy on the Brain and on Behavior through the Life Span

Roger J. Packer MD, 
  • Pages: 448-449
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Misleading Leads

Marked osteoporosis and spontaneous vertebral fractures in children: Don't forget, it could be leukemia

Gregoria Bertuna MD,  Paolo Famà MD,  Luca Lo Nigro MD,  Giovanna Russo-Mancuso MD,  Andrea Di Cataldo MD, 
  • Pages: 450-451
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Annals and Chronicles

A new miracle drug in the Caucasus?

Fritz H. Lampert MD, 
  • Pages: 452-453
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Proceedings of the Tumor Board

Giant cell tumor of bone with pulmonary metastases

Yasuhiro Okamoto MD,  Susan Mathew PhD,  Najat C. Daw MD,  Michael D. Neel MD,  M. Beth McCarville MD,  Jeffrey S. Dome MD,  D. Ashley Hill MD, 
  • Pages: 454-459
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Proceedings of a Conference

Proceedings of the conference on the effects of radiotherapy on the brain and on behavior through the Life Span, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 6–8, 2002

Christie Seiler PsyD,  Carol L. Armstrong PhD, 
  • Pages: 460-466
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Brief Reports

Anaplastic ependymoma with pleuropulmonary relapse

Tobias Strunk MD,  Christian Schultz MD,  Stefan Gottschalk MD,  Erich Reusche MD,  Peter Bucsky MD, 
  • Pages: 467-468
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Thoracic neural crest tumors in Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome

Courtney D. Thornburg MD,  Barry L. Shulkin MD,  Valerie P. Castle MD,  Linda M. McAllister-Lucas MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 468-469
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Transient cortical blindness following vincristine therapy

Diana Schouten MD,  Siebold S.N. de Graaf MD, PhD,  Aad Verrips MD, PhD, 
  • Page: 470
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Emergence of secondary acute lymphoblastic leukemia of Burkitt type after treatment of rhabdomyosarcoma

Takashi Miyagi MD,  Akitoshi Nagasaki MD, PhD,  Tetsuro Nakazato MD,  Nobuyuki Hyakuna MD, PhD,  Nobuyuki Takasu MD, PhD,  Masato Masuda MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 471-472
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Clustering of Fournier (male genital) gangrene cases in a pediatric cancer ward†

Chetna Bakshi GMD,  Shripad Banavali MD,  Nilesh Lokeshwar MD,  Rajendra Prasad Mch,  Suresh Advani MD, FICP, MNAMS, 
  • Pages: 472-474
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Demonstration of CD1a positive cells in the cerebrospinal fluid—A clue to diagnosis of isolated Langerhans cell histiocytosis of the hypothalamic—pituitary axis?

Helmut Prosch MD,  Andreas Feldges MD,  Nicole Grois MD,  Christian Fretz MD,  Peter Spieler MD,  Milen Minkov MD,  Helmut Gadner MD, 
  • Pages: 474-476
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Use of radiofrequency for ablation of unresectable hepatic metastasis in desmoplastic small round cell tumor

Antonio Gonçalves de Oliveira-Filho MD, TCBC,  Marcio Lopes Miranda MD, TCBC,  Fabíola Leonelli Diz MD,  Ruy Moraes Machado Guimarães MD, TCBR,  Simone Santos Aguiar MD,  Joaquim Murray Bustorff-Silva MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 476-477
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Whole body thermochemotherapy in an infant with rhabdomyosarcoma and pulmonary metastases

P. Schippel MD,  I. Lotz MD,  K. Rothe MD,  C. Greiner MD,  C. Mauz-Körholz MD, 
  • Pages: 478-480
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Osteosarcoma in the first decade of life

Rajaram Nagarajan MD,  Brenda J. Weigel MD,  Roby C. Thompson MD,  John P. Perentesis MD, 
  • Pages: 480-483
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Selective thrombocytopenia in children with Wilms tumor: An immune-mediated effect of dactinomycin?†

Andrew Shannon MB, ChB,  James Smith,  Kim Nagel RN, CCRA,  Roger Levesque MD,  Theodore Warkentin MD,  Ronald Barr MB, ChB, MD, 
  • Pages: 483-485
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

International Notes

Pediatric oncology in the United Arab Emirates: The Tawam hospital experience

Moh'd El-Hayek MD,  Omar Trad MD,  Mikael Donner PhD,  Denis Hardy FRCPCH, 
  • Pages: 486-487
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Treatment of B-cell malignancies in children with a modified BFM-NHL 90 protocol in argentina

Guillermo Chantada MD,  Sandra Casak MD,  Daniel Alderete MD,  Pedro Zubizarreta MD,  Guillermo Gallo MD,  Federico Sackmann Muriel MD, 
  • Pages: 488-490
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Letters to the Editor

Severe encephalopathy caused by intraparenchymal methotrexate instillation due to the design of the catheter

Sven Gottschling MD,  Harald Reinhard MD,  Sascha Meyer MD,  Thomas Krenn MD,  Norbert Graf MD,  Martin Strowitzki MD, 
  • Pages: 491-492
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Splenic artery embolization as emergency treatment of splenic rupture in a child with T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia having t(8;14) translocation

Renee V. Gardner MD,  Raj P. Warrier MD,  William Loe MD,  Kenneth Ward MD,  Marie Haymon MD,  Randall Craver MD, 
  • Pages: 492-493
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Successful treatment of Scedosporium pneumonia with voriconazole during AML therapy and bone marrow transplantation

Kathryn J. Klopfenstein MD,  Robin Rosselet RN, MS, CNP,  Amanda Termuhlen MD,  Dwight Powell MD, 
  • Pages: 494-495
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Melanotic neuroectodermal tumour of infancy arising in skull

N. Haider MBBS, FRCSI,  M. Mc Dermott MB, BCh, BAO, MRCPI, FRCPath,  R.J. Fitzgerald MAMB, BCh, FRCS, FRCSI, FRACS [Paed Surgery], FRCS [Ed] Adhom, 
  • Pages: 495-496
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Genetic alterations in hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma associated with familial adenomatous polyposis

Francesco Cetta MD,  Luca Mazzarella,  Giuseppina Bon,  Michele Zuckermann,  Alberto Casorelli,  Hervé Nounga, 
  • Pages: 496-497
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Book Reviews

Quest for Cure: UK Children's Cancer Study Group—the first 25 years

Teresa J. Vietti MD, 
  • Page: 498
  • First Published: 22 September 2003

Evidence-based paediatric oncology

Richard Aplenc MD, MSCE, 
  • Pages: 499-500
  • First Published: 22 September 2003