ONLY EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Acute lymphocytic leukemia
4 year old with fever, bleeding, bone pain, generalized lymphadenopathy,
splenomegaly, hepatomegaly. CBC shows anemia, leukocytosis (100,000 immature
WBC) and thrombocytopenia. Prognosis is good. Likely diagnosis?
Fever, drenching night sweats, fatigue, weight loss
What are B symptoms?
Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL)
2nd mc is lymphomas
What is the most common type of childhood cancer?
li-fraumeni, neurofibromatosis, down syndrome, beckwith-wiedmann
genetics that increase risk childhood cancer?
lymphoma
persistent, progressive, painless cervical LAD
(cervical LAD is UNCOMMON in children)
wilms tumor
mass in upper abdomen
mri with and without contrast
gold standard for diagnosis of brain tumors?