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Neurofibromatosis in childhood
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This article is published in The Journal of Pediatrics.The article was published on 1970-03-01. It has received 174 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Neurofibromatosis.read more
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Von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis.
TL;DR: A large number of the patients diagnosed with neurofibromatosis are women, and the prognosis is poor for the vast majority of the women diagnosed with the disease.
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Soft Tissue Sarcoma
George D. Demetri,Scott Antonia,Robert S. Benjamin,Marilyn M. Bui,Ephraim S. Casper,Ernest U. Conrad,Thomas F. DeLaney,Kristen N. Ganjoo,Martin J. Heslin,Raymond J. Hutchinson,John M. Kane,G. Douglas Letson,Sean V. McGarry,Richard J. O'Donnell,I. Benjamin Paz,John D. Pfeifer,Raphael E. Pollock,R. Lor Randall,Richard F. Riedel,Karen D. Schupak,Herbert S. Schwartz,Katherine Thornton,Margaret von Mehren,Jeffrey D. Wayne +23 more
TL;DR: Soft-tissue sarcomas are a rare group of tumours comprising approximately 1% of all malignant tumours, and conventional management has relied heavily on surgery, but the inadequacy of this approach is reflected by local recurrence rates of 40%–80% in adult Sarcomas and of as high as 90% in childhood sarcoma.
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Patterns of second malignant neoplasms in children.
Anna T. Meadows,Giulio J. D'Angio,Valerie Miké,Alberto Banfi,Curtis C. Harris,R. D. T. Jenkin,Allen D. Schwartz +6 more
TL;DR: In this group of 102 patients, all pediatric cancers were seen as initial lesions, but Wilms' tumor and retinoblastoma were over‐represented and leukemia and brain tumors under‐represented, which may reflect new tissue‐specific hereditary cancer syndromes.
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Intracranial arachnoid cysts in children: a review of pathogenesis, clinical features, and management
TL;DR: The distribution, clinical features, treatment modalities, and some unusual syndromes associated with arachnoid cysts in children are discussed in this review.
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Neurofibromatosis in children.
TL;DR: The incidence of neoplasia greatly exceeds that of the general population and four types of pseudarthrosis of the tibia can be distinguished, with progressively more serious prognosis.
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Syndrome Characterized by Osteitis Fibrosa Disseminata, Areas of Pigmentation and Endocrine Dysfunction, with Precocious Puberty in Females
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Cytogenesis of Schwannoma (Neurilemoma), Neurofibroma, Dermatofibroma, and Dermatofibrosarcoma as Revealed by Electron Microscopy
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Vascular Lesions Causing Hypertension in Neurofibromatosis
Mordecai Halpern,Guido Currarino +1 more
TL;DR: Neurofibromatosis is a congenital and hereditary disorder involving ectodermal, neuroectodermal and mesodermal tissue and vascular changes are said to predominate in the kidneys, endocrine glands, heart and gastrointestinal tract, and may lead to arterial stenosis or obliteration of the arterial lumen.