Publications by authors named "Roberto Garibaldi-Covarrubias"
Background: Acute leukemia is the most common cancer in childhood. Analyzing the spatial distribution of acute leukemia may generate the identification of risk factors.
Objective: To study the incidence rate of acute leukemia, its geographic distribution, and cluster detection in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Transient myeloproliferative disorder progression and acquired chromosomal abnormalities in children with Down syndrome.
Pediatr Blood Cancer
November 2012
Multiple myeloma is extremely rare in children and represents fewer than 1% of all patients with myeloma. We report a case of multiple myeloma in an 11-year-old girl, who presented with a well-differentiated immunoglobulin A/kappa plasmacytoma at the base of the skull at 9 years of age; at that time, the bone marrow biopsy was negative. Two years later, the patient experienced generalized bone pain with multiple lytic bone lesions that affected the skull, long bones, ribs, and clavicle.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The Functional Independence Score in Hemophilia (FISH) is a performance-based assessment tool used to measure the patients functional ability so far only used in patients with severe hemophilia. Its aim is to determine if FISH is useful in patients with mild and moderate disease.
Procedure: In a cross-sectional study 90 children 60 hemophilic and 30 sex-, race-, and age-matched healthy males were assessed.
Purpose: To describe the types of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) used by pediatric cancer patients attending a tertiary care hospital in Western Mexico.
Patients And Methods: In a cross-sectional survey, parents were interviewed and types of CAM employed as well as factors related to their use and their perceived effectiveness were determined.
Results: One hundred ten parents of pediatric cancer patients completed the survey.