Pediatric Cancer, Volume 4 : Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Hayat, M.A. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Colección:Pediatric Cancer, Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis, 4
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface. I. Neuroblastoma
  • Pediatric neuroblastoma: use of hypermethylation of apoptotic genes as a prognostic factor
  • Mycn nonamplified neuroblastoma: detection of tumor-derived cell-free dna in serum for predicting prognosis of neuroblastoma.-   Neuroblastoma: role of mdm2 and snp309 as markers
  • Role of pi3k inhibitors in sensitizing neuroblastoma cells to apoptosis.-     Regulation of neuroblastoma cell differentiation by retinoic acid: role of alternative splicing and micro-rnas.- Neuroblastoma: role of activated leukocyte cell adhesion molecule.- Neuroblastoma: inhibition by alu-like rna
  • Children with high risk neuroblastoma: prophylactic and therapeutic treatment with docosahexaenoic acid. II. Medulloblastoma.- Overview of treatment of pediatric medulloblastoma.- Event-free survival of children with average-risk medulloblastoma: treatment with craniospinal radiation followed by adjuvant chemotherapy.III. Leukemia
  • Risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: identification of inherited susceptibility.-  Pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia: role of bim protein in prednisolone-induced apoptosis.- Infectious complications of antineoplastic chemotherapy in children with acute leukemia or solid tumors
  • Pediatric leukemia of natural killer cells: diagnosis and multi-agent chemotherapy. IV. Lymphoma
  • Pediatric lymphoma patients: cytomegalovirus infection.- Diagnosis of bone marrow involvement in pediatric lymphoma patients: fdg pet/ct versus bone marrow biopsy.-Survivors of childhood hodgkin’s disease after treatment: subsequent solid tumor malignancies based on gender and radiation dose.V. Rhabdoid.- Early childhood paraspinal atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor:failure of standard treatments
  • Cerebral tumor with rhabdoid features
  • Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor of the pineal region: diagnosis. VI. Sarcoma
  • Ewing’s sarcoma family of tumors: targeting molecular pathways and the race for a cure
  • Ewing’s sarcoma: current concepts in chemotherapy and surgical control
  • Pediatric epithelioid finger sarcoma: diagnosis and treatment.VII. Miscellaneous tumors.- Diagnosis and prognosis of pediatric patients with adrenocortical tumors
  • Supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor: therapy
  • Giant pediatric midline tumors of the posterior fossa: surgery using combined transventricular and supracerebellar approach.- Pediatric gastrointestinal stromal tumor: pathology,genetics, and therapy.- Pediatric pituitary adenomas: germline genetic defects.- Pediatric ependymomas: role of methylation
  • Pediatric intramedullary cavernoma: surgical treatment erwin cornips and mariel ter laak-poort
  • Pediatric patients with bone malignancy: therapeutic options
  • Late and acute effects of pediatric cancer therapy on the oral cavity
  • Air embolism in a pediatric patient: a very rare complication of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
  • Index. .