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Second malignant neoplasms after treatment of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma—a retrospective multinational study of 189 children and adolescents
Data on the spectrum of second malignant neoplasms (SMNs) after primary childhood non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) are scarce. One-hundred-and-eighty-nine NHL patients diagnosed in a 30 years period of 1980–2010 d...
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Prognostic Factors in Childhood and Adolescent Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Pediatric non-Hodgkin lymphoma (pNHL) is a heterogeneous group of diseases in their morphologic characteristics, clinical behavior, biological features, and response to therapy. Understanding the complexity of...
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Parental perceptions of health-related quality of life in children with leukemia in the second week after the diagnosis: a quantitative model
The focus is on describing the child’s health-related quality of life (HRQL) at the time of diagnosis as perceived by parents, by using an empirical model of their psychosocial context.
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Immune reconstitution complicated by CMV retinitis in a pediatric patient who underwent haploidentical CD34+-selected hematopoietic stem cell transplant for acute lymphoblastic leukemia
We describe two episodes of CMV retinitis in a pediatric patient who underwent a CD34+ selected graft from his haploidentical father. Both recipient and donor were cytomegalovirus (CMV) seropositive. Both epis...
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Conversational strategies with parents of newly diagnosed leukaemic children: An analysis of 4880 conversational turns
Communication with parents of children newly diagnosed with cancer poses a number of problems, mostly due to the psychological effects of parental trauma. This study was designed to answer the following questi...
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A prospective survey on incidence and outcome of Broviac/Hickman catheter-related complications in pediatric patients affected by hematological and oncological diseases
A prospective pediatric survey on the incidence of central venous catheter (CVC) complications was performed aimed at identifying risk factors of premature CVC removal. The study comprised 129 Broviac-Hickman ...
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Voriconazole for invasive aspergillosis in oncohematological patients: a single-center pediatric experience
Voriconazole is a new triazole active orally and parenterally that recently proved effective in the treatment of invasive aspergillosis and in empirical antifungal therapy for persistently febrile neutropenic ...