Pulmonary Exacerbation of Undiagnosed Toxocariasis in Intensively-Treated High-Risk Neuroblastoma Patients.

Toxocariasis is one of the most common zoonoses, with high seroprevalence in apparently healthy individuals. Neuroblastoma is an aggressive childhood cancer. The cure rates are improving due to dose-dense chemotherapy, progress in surgical practice, myeloablative therapy with autologous stem cell transplantation, and recently, anti-GD2 immunotherapy.

[Results of immunosupressive therapy in children with severe aplastic anaemia. Report of the Polish Paediatric Haematology Group].

Introduction: Bone marrow transplantation from HLA identical family donors is the treatment of choice for children with severe aplastic anaemia (SAA). When there is no donor available, combined immunosuppressive therapy is given.

Aim: evaluation of results of immunosupressive therapy in children with severe aplastic anaemia.

[Prognosis of clinical course of primary brain tumours in children in relationship to the duration and characteristic features of initial clinical symptoms].

Unlabelled: Primary tumours of the central nervous system belong to the most frequently occurring neoplastic diseases in paediatric patients. During the initial phase of disease development, the clinical symptoms of brain tumours might suggest disorders of other organs and their diagnosis is frequently delayed in relation to therapeutic possibilities. The aim of the study was to analyse the characteristic features and duration of preliminary symptoms arising due to brain tumours in paediatric patients treated in a single centre and to try to assess their prognostic significance for recurrence and death.