Case report: POEMS syndrome in childhood

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 235-238

  Sevketoglu, Esra ^a   Hatipoglu, Sami ^a   Ayan, Inci ^b   Dogan, Oner ^c   Salihoglu, Bahar ^a  

^a BAKIRKOY DR SADI KONUK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Children; Endocrinopathy; Gammopathy; Organomegaly; POEMS; Polyneuropathy

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 6; IRON; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DELAYED PUBERTY; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATOMEGALY; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; LEG PAIN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POEMS SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN FIBROSIS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPLENOMEGALY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URINALYSIS;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; PARAPROTEINEMIAS; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; POEMS SYNDROME; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PUBERTY, DELAYED; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41849109541     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: 15363678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e31815f88da     Document Type: Article

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