ntrodução: O transplante de medula óssea é um tratamento essencial para pacientes com leucemia linfoblástica aguda (LLA) e leucemia mieloide aguda (LMA). A análise da distribuição demográfica e do tempo de acesso ao transplante fornece insights sobre as disparidades no tratamento dessas condiç�...
Introduction: Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is the most common cancer type in children and accounts for 80% of pediatric
leukemias. Novel targets are necessary to improve survival rates for refractory and relapsed disease. There is accumulating evidence that
Toll-like Receptor (TLR) signaling may be a...
Abstract Introduction Flow cytometric immunophenotyping (FCI) plays a major role in diagnosing hematologic malignancies. In patients diagnosed with precursor B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), expression of certain non-lineage/cross lineage antigens is of prognostic and cytogenetic relevanc...
Background: Before the advent of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), patients with Philadelphia-positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (Ph+ALL) had a poor prognosis. The association of TKIs to intensive chemotherapy (CT) improved outcome. Aim: To evaluate results of an intensive CT protocol including TKI i...
Introduction: Treatment of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is based on risk stratification. This study aimed to assess the agreement between risk group classifications in the different childhood ALL treatment protocols used in a referral hospital in southern Brazil. Methods: We retrospective...
Peritoneal lymphomatosis (PL) is a rare presentation of extranodal precursor leukemia/lymphoma. The presentation is often non-specific, leading to delayed diagnosis and treatment. In this case, though the preliminary diagnosis was established on ascitic fluid cytology, the disease progressed rapidly, lea...
Propósito de la revisión: el objetivo de la revisión es delinear la fisiopatología de los linfomas de estirpe B.Buscamos reportes endonde se incluyela descripción del origen de los Linfomas B para una mejor comprensión de esta patología, a la luz de los avances en las diferentes áreas.
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ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia are at risk of malnutrition, but few studies have described the changes in nutritional status during the different phases of chemotherapy. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate changes in nutritional status, food intake and appetite-regulating hormones...
