Pulmonary embolism: a fatal complication of arterial chemoembolization for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

The case of a child with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma that did not respond to systemic chemotherapy is presented. Three courses of chemoembolization (hepatic arterial chemoembolization) were given, with partial tumor response. The hepatic artery was cannulated via the femoral artery using the Seldinger technique.

Preliminary experience with arterial chemoembolization for hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma in children.

The objective of this work was to test feasibility and efficacy of hepatic artery chemoembolization (HACE) in unresectable malignant liver tumors. Five patients aged from 1-12 years were treated in the Medical University of Gdansk from 1999 to 2002. All had locally advanced tumors, which did not respond to systemic chemotherapy: four, hepatoblastoma (HB) and one, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

[Wilms' tumour of unfavorable histology--results of treatment with the SIOP 93-01 protocol at the Gdańsk centre. Preliminary report].

Background: Wilms' tumour is the most common primary renal tumour of childhood. The aim or the study was to evaluate the results of treatment in patients with unfavourable histology Wilms' tumour.

Material And Methods: 44 children were treated for nephroblastoma (Wilms' tumour) according to the SIOP 93-01 protocol in the Department of Paediatrics.

[Stage IV Wilms' tumour -- analysis of treatment results, according to the SIOP 93-01 protocol, at the Medical University of Gdańsk].

The Aim Of The Study: To evaluate the results of treatment in patients with Wilm's' tumor in stage IV at the Gdansk Medical University Centre.

Material And Methods: Between 1993 and 2002, 44 children with nephroblastoma were treated according to SI0P 93-01 protocol, in the Department of Paediatrics, Haematology, Oncology and Endocrinology of the Medical University of Gdansk. Stage IV tumour was confirmed in 6 children: 3 boys and 3 girls.

[Malignant pelvic neoplasms in children treated in two Polish oncology centres].

Background: Extensive diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas appear in children With primary malignant neoplasms located in the minor pelvis.

The Aim Of The Study: To evaluate the clinical symptoms, disease course and the results of treatment in patients with malignant pelvic neoplasms.

Material And Methods: The study included 31 children (13 boys and 18 girls; aged 2 months to 16 years; mean age -- 8 years) treated in the Departments of Paediatric Oncology and Haematology in Gdansk and Lublin during the period of 1992-2003.