Pain management in children with burns before admission to the ward: Analysis of selected parts of pre-hospital medical records.

Background: The extent of pre-hospital medical care (PHMC) given to burned patients affects both the patient's condition and the effectiveness of treatment.

Objectives: To improve the quality of PHMC of burns in children, based upon an analysis of the selected parts of pre-hospital medical records, with particular emphasis on analgesia.

Material And Methods: Medical records were used to analyze how PHMC was given to 117 burned children aged 0-18 years, treated at the Pediatric Surgery Ward between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2017.

[Can infrascanner be useful in hospital emergency departments for diagnosing minor head injury in children?].

Aim: The aim of the study was to determine whether Infrascanner screening is a test which would facilitate excluding acute intracranial bleeding in children after minor head injury and thus make it possible to limit indications for computed tomography in those children.

Material And Methods: The study enrolled 155 children aged 2-18 years after a minor or moderate head injury. The children were assessed using the Glasgow Coma Scale, examined by Infrascanner screening.

[Minor head trauma - trivial matter or sirious diagnostic and therapeutic problem? The role of Infrascanner in the diagnostic process].

Head injuries in children, especially minor head injuries, still constitute a important diagnostic and therapeutic problem. Despite progress in medical sciences, there is no definition of minor head injury or standards of the management of children with a minor head injury. In consequence, the diagnostic procedure in the child who does not show any signs of central nervous system damage as a result of head injury is individual and depends on the experience and knowledge of the aid provider and as well as procedures established in a given ward.

Prehospital pain management in children with traumatic injuries.

Unlabelled: Damage that arises as a result of injuries is one of the most common causes of children presenting to hospital emergency departments.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to assess the implementation of recommendations for prehospital pain management in injured children provided by various health care centers.

Methods: A total of 7146 children aged 0 to 18 years because of injury were admitted to the Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine in the Maria Konopnicka Memorial University Teaching Hospital No.

[Nephroblastoma in children aged less than 6 months at diagnosis].

Unlabelled: We present the results of treatment of kidney tumours in newborns and infants aged less than 6 months, in the years 1993-2000, from the Nephroblastoma Committee of the Polish Paediatric Group of Solid Tumours (PPGGL). We have analysed the diagnostic and treatment results in the group of 31 children aged 0 to 6 months. For 19 children registered between 1993 and 1996, event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival (AS) were assessed.

Prognostic value of proliferating cell nuclear antigen in Wilms' tumour in children.

Aims: To evaluate the prognostic value of index Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen (PCNA) in Wilms' tumour in children.

Methods: The study comprised 64 children aged from 2 days to 13 years treated according to the SIOP (Society International of Oncology Paediatric) and accepted by the PPGGL (Polish Paediatric Group for the Treatment of Solid Tumours). The studies were conducted on tumour tissue removed during surgery, fixed in formalin and embedded in paraffin blocks.

Prognostic value of p53 expression in Wilms' tumor in children.

Background: The aim of this report was to evaluate the prognostic value and clinical correlations of p53 expression in children with Wilms' tumor.

Material And Methods: The study comprised 61 children aged from 2 days to 13 years (median 39 months), diagnosed and treated according to SIOP and PPGGL criteria in three centers co-operating with the PPGGL. The studies were conducted on tumor tissue removed during surgery, fixed in formalin and embedded in paraffin blocks.

Multicenter retrospective analysis of various primary pediatric malignant hepatic tumors--management in a series of 47 Polish patients (1985-1995).

Forty-seven children treated in various Polish centers between 1985 and 1995 for primary malignant liver tumors were retrospectively analyzed. Hepatoblastoma (HB) prevailed--it was found in 39 cases. There were 6 hepatocarcinoma (HCC) cases and 2 cases of undifferentiated sarcoma (UDS).

[Familial occurrence of nephroblastoma].

Wilms' tumour can develop in ways: sporadic--non-hereditary or familial. Familial Wilms' tumour is not very seldom. It is a form of autosomal dominant segregation and probably low and variable penetration.

Venoocclusive liver disease (VOD) as a complication of Wilms' tumour management in the series of consecutive 206 patients.

Unlabelled: In 4 years (1993-1996) 206 pts. with nephroblastoma were treated. All children were treated according to SIOP 93-01 protocol.

16q heterozygosity loss in Wilms' tumour in children and its clinical importance.

Introduction: The loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of 16q is a structural change detected in about 20-30% of Wilms' tumour cases. Aberrations which result in deletion of 16q are also found in breast cancer, prostate cancer and liver cancer, where they are connected with a worse prognosis. The hypothesis of a bad prognosis in nephroblastomas with LOH 16q was first formulated by scientists from NWTS (National Wilms Tumor Study) on the basis of 232 cases of Wilms' tumour.

Loss of heterozygosity of WT1 gene in the prognosis of sporadic Wilms' tumour in children.

The aim of this report was to evaluate the prognostic value of allele loss of the WT1 gene in children with sporadic Wilms' tumour. Allele loss of the WT1 gene was evaluated using microsatellite polymorphisms in the 3' untranslated region of WT1 in a radioactive PCR assay. The study comprised 66 children (30 girls and 36 boys), aged from 2 days to 13 years, treated for Wilms' tumour according to the SIOP-09 and PGGL scheme.