PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | acute leukemia |
| Phenotype | C0003615|appendicitis |
| Sentences | 3 |
| PubMedID- 22665346 | Acute appendicitis in children with acute leukemia: experiences of a single institution in korea. |
| PubMedID- 25870788 | •acute appendicitis in children with acute leukemia is uncommon and often recognized late.•aml requires intensive chemotherapy which further compromises the clinical state of the patient.•immunocompromised state and intestinal wall leukemic involvement makes treatment challenging.•we present a case of remission of aml with a short course of decitabine, a hypomethylating agent.•decitabine may serve as bridging therapy and help achieve disease control in critically ill patients. |
| PubMedID- 23840984 | While appendectomy is accepted as the treatment of choice for appendicitis in patients with acute leukemia [5], diagnosis and prompt management of the leukemia have a greater impact on achieving a complete remission and, thus, overall survival. |
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