Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics

Case Report

Two Cases of Thymic Carcinoma in Childhood

Young Ah Lee, Jin Young Park, Hye Lim Jung, Moon Soo Par, Hyoung Soo Choi, Eun Sun Yoo, Hyo Seop Ah

Clin Exp Pediatr. 1999;42(3):424-429. Published online March 15, 1999

Thymic carcinoma is a malignant neoplasm arising from the thymic epithelium, and is known to be extremely uncommon in the pediatric population. The tumor is clinically highly aggressive with frequent local intrathoracic spread and extrathoracic metastases detected in the majority of patients at initial diagnosis and often shows minimal or no response to conventional chemotherapy. We experienced two pediatric patients...

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Original Article

Results of Chemotherapy of Hepatoblastoma and Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Children

Kyung Duk Park, Gi Woong Seong, Jae Kyung Lee, Hong Hoe Koo, Hee Young Shin, Hyo Seop Ahn

Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(2):195-206. Published online February 15, 1995

Purpose : Surgical excision has been the primary treatment for hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma. However, at presentation, only one third of such tumors are surgically resectable. Without operation, the disease is fatal. Therefore, neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been introduced for conversion of the unresectable tumors into the resectable ones. We studied th e effects of chemotherapy for hepatic malignancy in children. Methods...

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Carcinomas in Childhood -A 10-Year Experience in Seoul National University Hospital-

Hong Hoe Koo, Kyung Duk Park, Hye Lim Jung, Sang Kyu Park, Hee Young Shin, Hyo Seop Ahn

Clin Exp Pediatr. 1992;35(10):1369-1376. Published online October 15, 1992

Carcinomas in childhood differ from those in adults in their frequency, histologic type, and distribution of primary sites. In children, carcinomas are rare and few series have been published containing sufficient mumbers of cases to permit a reliable account of the incidence and survival of children with carcinoma. During a 10-year period, 1982-1991, we observed 40 patients less than 16...

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