Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (AREKEN) Osaka Univ Grad School Med

We are treating children with cancer and hematological disorder at Osaka University Hospital, Japan.
Contact us at areken@ped.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

Monday, April 17, 2006

Morning Seminar Vol 3(2) August 2005

Outcome for patients with metastatic (M2-3) medulloblastoma treated SIOP/UKCCSG PNET-3 chemotherapy (Taylor, Eur J cancer 2005) 89

Late mortality experience in five-year survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer: the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (Mertens, JCO 2001) 91

High-risk medulloblastoma 96

Characteristic of candidaemia with Candida albicans compared with non-ablicans Candida species and predictors of mortality (Weinberger, J Hosp Infect 2005) 96

Antifungal susceptibility of Candida spp. isolated from pediatric patients: a survey of 4 children’s hospitals (Zaoutis, Diag Microbiol Infect Dis 2005)
Antifungal susceptibility survey of 2,000 bloodstream Candida isolates in the US (Ostrosky-Zeichner, Antimicrobial Agents Chemotherapy 2003) 102

L-Asp-induced severe necrotizing pancreatitis successfully treated with percutaneous drainage (Top, Pediatr Blood Cancer 2005) 107

Successful engraftment without radiation after fludarabine-based regimen in Fanconi anemia patients undergoing genotypically identical donor hematopoietic cell transplantation (Tan, Pediatr Blood Cancer 2005) 109

Review of SCTs for NB 113

Safety and efficacy of gemtuzumab ozogamicin in pediatric patients with advanced CD33 AML (Arceci, Blood 2005) 114


Graft-versus-Ewing sarcoma effect and long-term remission induced by haploidentical SCT in a patient with relapse of metastatic disease (Koscielniak, JCO 2005) 118

Patients with RMS 121

Infantile hepatic hemangiomas: clinical and imaging findings and their correlation with therapy (Kassarijian, Am J Roentgenol 2004) 122

Primary malignant tumors of the stomach in children (Mahour, J Pediatr Surgery 1980)
Gastric NHL: analysis of 252 patients from a multicenter study (Salvagno, Tumori 1999) 124

How to use abdominal echogram 131

Comparison among L-Asp products 136

J Jpn Pediatr Vol.109 (8), 2005
Criteria for diagnosis of mosquito allergy 146
Interssusception 148

Cyclophosphamide for SLE 154