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    Pediatric Blood & Cancer: Volume 45, Issue 2

    103-237
    August 2005
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Commentary

Twinning: A rewarding scenario for development of oncology services in transitional countries†

A.J.P. Veerman,  Sutaryo,  Sumadiono, 
  • Pages: 103-106
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Reviews

AMOR: A proposed cooperative effort to improve outcomes of childhood cancer in Central America

Federico Antillon MD,  Fulgencio L. Baez MD,  Ronald Barr MD,  Jose C. Barrantes Zamorra MD,  Ligia Fu Carrasco MD,  Belgica Moreno MD,  Miguel M. Bonilla MD,  Gianni Tognoni MD,  Maria G. Valsecch MD,  Scott Howard MD,  Raul C. Ribeiro MD,  Giuseppe Masera MD, 
  • Pages: 107-110
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Research Articles

Prognostic factors for relapsed childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Impact of allogeneic stem cell transplantation—a report from the Kyushu-Yamaguchi Children's Cancer Study Group

Akinobu Matsuzaki MD,  Yoshihisa Nagatoshi,  Hiroko Inada,  Hideki Nakayama,  Fumio Yanai,  Hiroshi Ayukawa,  Kiyoshi Kawakami,  Hiroshi Moritake,  Aiko Suminoe,  Jun Okamura, 
  • Pages: 111-120
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Differential mRNA expression of glucocorticoid receptor α and β is associated with glucocorticoid sensitivity of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children

Yuhki Koga MD,  Akinobu Matsuzaki,  Aiko Suminoe,  Hiroyoshi Hattori,  Satomi Kanemitsu,  Toshiro Hara, 
  • Pages: 121-127
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

The role of adjuvant chemotherapy in children and adolescents with surgically resected, high-risk adult-type soft tissue sarcomas

Andrea Ferrari MD,  Ines B. Brecht MD,  Ewa Koscielniak MD, PhD,  Michela Casanova MD,  Angela Scagnellato,  Gianni Bisogno MD,  Rita Alaggio MD,  Giovanni Cecchetto MD,  Serena Catania MD,  Cristina Meazza MD,  Christoph Int-Veen Dipl Inf Med,  Sylvia Kirsch,  Tobias Dantonello MD,  Modesto Carli MD,  Joern Treuner MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 128-134
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Clinical significance of central nervous system involvement at diagnosis of childhood t-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Tang-Her Jaing MD,  Chao-Ping Yang MD,  Iou-Jih Hung MD,  Pei-Kwei Tsay PhD,  Chen-Kan Tseng MD,  Shih-Hsiang Chen MD, 
  • Pages: 135-138
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Reduction of adult height in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia survivors after prophylactic cranial irradiation

M.E.J. Bongers MD,  A.B. Francken MD,  C. Rouwé MD,  W.A. Kamps MD, PhD,  A. Postma MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 139-143
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Adolescent survivors: A secondary analysis of a clinical trial targeting behavior change

Cheryl L. Cox PhD,  Rosemary A. McLaughlin MSN,  Shesh N. Rai PhD,  Brenda D. Steen RN, CCRA,  Melissa M. Hudson MD, 
  • Pages: 144-154
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Second primary tumors in children and young adults in the North of England (1968–99)

Donna M. Hammal MSc,  Claire L. Bell BMedSci,  Alan W. Craft PRCPCH, KBE,  Louise Parker PhD, 
  • Pages: 155-161
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Early bacteremia in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients on oral antibiotic prophylaxis

Leslie S. Kersun MD, MSCE,  Kathleen J. Propert ScD,  Ebbing Lautenbach MD, MPH,  Nancy Bunin MD,  Angela DeMichele MD, MSCE, 
  • Pages: 162-169
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor and immunosuppression in the treatment of pediatric acquired severe aplastic anemia

Michael R. Jeng MD,  Paula E. Naidu MPH,  Martha D. Rieman FNP,  Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo MD,  Kerri A. Nottage MD,  Donyell T. Thornton,  Chin-Shang Li PhD,  Winfred C. Wiang MD, 
  • Pages: 170-175
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Clinical and diagnostic comparison of neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia to non-immune cases of thrombocytopenia

James B. Bussel MD,  Stergios Zacharoulis,  Kim Kramer,  Janice G. McFarland,  Joanne Pauliny,  Cecile Kaplan,  Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia Registry Group , 
  • Pages: 176-183
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Sickle cell hepatopathy: Clinical presentation, treatment, and outcome in pediatric and adult patients

Hyunah Ahn MD,  Chin-Shang Li PhD,  Winfred Wang MD, 
  • Pages: 184-190
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Brief Reports

Retinitis following varicella in a vaccinated child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Ashley Ross MD,  Thomas W. McLean MD,  Rebecca Farber MD,  R. Grey Weaver Jr. MD,  Allen Chauvenet MD,  Laurence B. Givner MD,  Avinash K. Shetty MD, 
  • Pages: 191-194
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Lacking immunocytological GD2 expression in neuroblastoma: Report of 3 cases

Roswitha Schumacher-Kuckelkorn,  Barbara Hero,  Karen Ernestus,  Frank Berthold, 
  • Pages: 195-201
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Lack of response of a metastatic renal perivascular epithelial cell tumor (PEComa) to successive courses of DTIC based-therapy and imatinib mesylate

Heather Rigby BSc,  Weiming Yu MD, FRCPC,  Matthias H. Schmidt MSc, MD, FRCPC,  Conrad V. Fernandez MD, FRCPC, 
  • Pages: 202-206
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Quality of life of patients treated during childhood for a bone tumor: Assessment by the Child Health Questionnaire

Marie-Dominique Tabone MD,  Chantal Rodary MD,  Odile Oberlin MD,  Jean-Claude Gentet MD,  Hélène Pacquement MD,  Chantal Kalifa MD, 
  • Pages: 207-211
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Reduced intensity hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation across human leukocyte antigen barriers in a patient with congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia and monosomy 7

MacGregor Steele MD, FRCPC,  Johann Hitzler MD, FRCPC, Dr. Med,  John J. Doyle MD, FRCPC, FAAP,  Manuela Germeshausen PhD,  Conrad V. Fernandez Hon BSc, MD, FRCPC,  Kim Yuille RN, BScN,  Yigal Dror MD, 
  • Pages: 212-216
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Polymorphism of angiotensin converting enzyme is associated with severe circulatory compromise in febrile neutropenic children with cancer

Edit Bárdi MD,  Csaba Jenei MD,  Csongor Kiss MD, PhD, DSc, 
  • Pages: 217-221
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Successful treatment of doxorubicin and cisplatin resistant hepatoblastoma in a child with Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome with high dose acetaminophen and N-acetylcysteine rescue

Nathan L. Kobrinsky MD,  Diane E. Sjolander,  Jacob A. Goldenberg MD,  Thomas C. Ortmeier MD, 
  • Pages: 222-225
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Letters to the Editor

Effectiveness of chemotherapy in non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcomas

Andrea Ferrari MD,  Paola Collini MD, 
  • Pages: 226-227
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Effectiveness of chemotherapy in non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcomas—response†

Paul C. Nathan MD,  Lauren Long BSN,  Donna Bernstein BSN,  Crystal L. Mackall MD,  Lee J. Helman MD,  Maria Tsokos MD,  Leonard H. Wexler MD, 
  • Page: 228
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Surveillance blood counts for early detection of relapse in acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Hany Ariffin MPaed, MRCP,  Huay-Ling Lim MBBS, 
  • Page: 229
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Meeting Reports

Nutritional status in children with cancer: A report from the AHOPCA workshop held in Guatemala City, August 31–September 5, 2004†

Alessandra Sala MD, PhD,  Federico Antillon MD, MMM, PhD,  Paul Pencharz MB, ChB, PhD,  Ronald Barr MB, ChB, MD,  for the AHOPCA Consortium , 
  • Pages: 230-236
  • First Published: 23 June 2005

Matters of Morphology

Abetalipoproteinemia: Importance of the peripheral blood smear†

F. Demircioğlu MD,  H. Ören MD,  Ş. Yılmaz MD,  N. Arslan MD,  Ö. Gürcü MD,  G. İrken MD, 
  • Page: 237
  • First Published: 23 June 2005