Bilateral Proptosis in a Child: A Rare Presentation of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

Purpose: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a common hematological malignancy observed in children, typically presents with fever, pallor, easy bruising, hepatosplenomegaly and lymphadenopathy. However, when ALL manifests with unusual signs and the blood counts and peripheral smears are normal, it causes a diagnostic dilemma.

Case Report: We report a 5-year-old boy who presented with bilateral proptosis as the initial manifestation of ALL.

Parent's Perspectives on the End-of-life Care of their Child with Cancer: Indian Perspective.

Context: Parents report that end-of-life decisions are the most difficult treatment-related decisions that they face during their child cancer experience. Research from the parent's perspective of the quality of end-of-life care of their cancer children is scarce, particularly in developing countries like India.

Aims: This study aimed to identify the symptoms (medical/social/emotional) that most concerned parents at the end-of-life care of their cancer child and to identify the strategies parents found to be helpful during this period.

Gingival hypertrophy in a child: Expect the unexpected.

Acute leukemia is the most common malignant disorder of childhood. Acute leukemia is characterized by marrow failure due to the replacement of marrow elements by leukemic blasts. Gingival hypertrophy (GH) due to acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in a child is extremely rare.