Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Initial evaluation of anemia -- Microcytic anemia -- Normocytic anemia -- Macrocytic anemia -- Pancytopenia -- Anemia in the neonate -- Neonatal anemia due to impaired RBC production -- Hemolytic anemia -- Hemoglobinuria -- Presumed iron deficiency anemia which fails to respond to oral iron -- Thalassemia -- Newborn screening for hemoglobinopathies -- Sickle cell anemia with fever -- Management of painful vaso-occlusive episodes in sickle cell disease -- Evaluation and management of anemia in sickle cell disease.
Evaluation of a child with hemophilia who fails infusion therapy -- Consumptive coagulopathy -- Thrombophilia evaluation in a newborn infant with thrombosis -- Thrombophilia evaluation in a child with thrombosis -- Assessment of a child with suspected leukemia -- Assessment of a mediastinal mass -- Assessment of an abdominal mass -- Assessment of a pelvic mass -- Assessment of a soft tissue mass -- Assessment of bone lesions -- Initial management of a child with a newly diagnosed brain tumor -- Supratentorial brain tumors -- Brain tumors of the posterior fossa, brain stem and visual pathway.
Initial management of a child with a tumor involving or near the spinal cord -- Recognition and management of tumor lysis syndrome -- Recognition and management of -- superior vena cava syndrome -- Febrile neutropenia -- Management of biopsy tissue in children with possible malignancies -- Diagnosis and management of pulmonary infiltrates during chemotherapy -- Monitoring for late effects in children with malignancies -- Useful normal laboratory values -- Index of Signs and Symptoms -- Abbreviations.
Polycythemia (erythrocytosis) -- Red cell transfusion -- Leukocytosis -- Eosinophilia -- Neutropenia -- The child with recurrent infection: leukocyte dysfunction -- Lymphadenopathy . 1. Generalized lymphadenopathy -- Lymphadenopathy . 2. Localized adenopathy -- Splenomegaly -- Evaluation of a child with bleeding or abnormal coagulation screening tests -- Evaluation of a child with thrombocytopenia -- Thrombocytopenia in the well neonate -- Thrombocytopenia in the ill neonate -- Platelet dysfunction -- Thrombocytosis -- Treatment of bleeding in children with hemophilia.
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Practical algorithms in pediatric hematology and oncology.