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AI InsightBy this study, while reporting our cases diagnosed in our clinic, we noted that leukemias, the most frequently seen malignancies in childhood, may present with variable symptomatology, clinical and laboratory findings.
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Abstract
Between 1995 and 2001, the 83.3 % of 42 hospitalized leukemic patients were diagnosed as acute lymphoblastic, 14.3 % of them as acute myeloblastic and the rest 2.4 % as chronic myelocitic leukemia. Median age of our patients was 7.8 years and 67 % of them were males. The commonly seen presenting complaints were (73.8 %), fever (69 %) and arthralgy (30.9 %). On physical evaluation lymphadenopathy (64.3 %), hepatosplenomegaly (61.9 %) were examined. By this study, while reporting our cases diagnosed in our clinic, we noted that leukemias, the most frequently seen malignancies in childhood, may present with variable symptomatology, clinical and laboratory findings.
Özet
1995-2001 tarihleri arasında kliniğimizde tanı konulan 42 lösemi hastasının % 83.3'ü akut lenfoblastik lösemi, % 14.3'ü akut miyeloblastik lösemi, "% 2.4 'ü kronik miyelositer lösemi idi. Hastalarımızın ortalama yaşı 7.8 yaş olup % 66.7'si erkekti. Başvuru şikayetlerinde % 73.8 solukluk, % 69.0 ateş ve % 30.9 ile kemik-eklem ağrıları ön plandaydı. Fizik muayenede % 64.3 lenfadenomegali, % 61.9 hepatosplenomegali tespit edildi. Çocukluk çağı malignitelerinin en sık görülen grubunu oluşturan lösemilerin çok çeşitli semptom, klinik ve laboratuar bulgularıyla karşımıza çıkabileceğini vurgularken kliniğimizde tanı konan lösemili hastalarımızı sunmayı amaçladık.