Treatment outcome in children with malignancies associated with human immunodeficiency virus infection.
Treatment outcome in children with malignancies associated with human immunodeficiency virus infection.
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人类免疫缺陷病毒感染相关恶性肿瘤儿童的治疗结果。
DOI:
10.1016/s0022-3476(05)82660-5
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发表时间:
1990
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Clavell,LA
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作者:
Montalvo,FW;Casanova,R;Clavell,LA
The spectrum of disease related to infection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 includes secondary malignancies. 1 In adults, the most frequent secondary malignancies are Kaposi sarcoma and lymphomas, 2 which may coexist in the same patient. The lymphomas are most often B cell high-grade lymphomas. l4 Primary lymphomas of the central nervous system are common in adults with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, representing 10% of all AIDS-related lymphomas. 2 Recently, Epstein et al. 5 reported three such cases in children. The overall result of therapy for AIDS-related malignancies in adults has been poor6; many patients have an early death after infections, early relapse, or progressive disease in spite of chemotherapy. In this report we describe three children with AIDS who were previously well but had AIDS-related malignancies at the time of presentation]CASE REPORTS Patient 1. A 2-year-old female child of abusers of intravenous drugs had been admitted to another hospital 2 weeks before her first examination at the University Pediatric Hospital for a mass in the left submandibular region. In spite of parenteral antibiotic therapy, the mass continued to grow, and within 14 days she had bilateral swelling over the zygomatic arches and progressive hypertrophy of