| Leukemia in Childhood with Mediastinal Masses |
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Min Ja Pai, Soon Young Kim, Don Hee Ahn, Chang Yee Hong |
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Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Seoul National University |
| 縱隔洞腫痛를 同伴한 小兒白血病 |
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裵敏子, 金舜英, 安敦姬, 洪影義 |
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서울犬學校 醫科大學 小兒科學敎室 |
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| Abstract |
Six cases o£ acute leukemia with mediastinal masses are reported with a review of relevant literature..
Out of 105 patients wi h leukemia who had been admitted to the Department of Pediatrics, Seoul.
National University Hospital for the last 6 years, six cases had huge mediastinal masses on the chest
x-ray examination. In 3 of them the masses were located in the anterior mediastinum, suggesting
enlargement of the thymus. On admission these cases had more or less severe dyspnea and facial edema,,
and 2 of them were initally suspected as heart failure and osteomyelitis respectively. All of the 6.
cases were acute lymphocytic leukemia and treated with combinations of prednisolone, 6-mercaptcpurine^
metho
trexate and vincristine, showing remarkable improvement of clinical features in a few days.
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