|
KMID : 0367419740150060095
|
|
Journal of Korean Pediatric Society
1974 Volume.15 No. 6 p.95 ~ p.100
|
|
|
Meningeal Leukemia in Children
|
|
金相祐/Kim, Sang Woo
裵敏子/申愛羅/張永吉/洪彰義/Pai, Min Ja/Shin, Ae Ra/Chang, Yung Kil/Hong, Yee Hong
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Clinical observation was made on 11 cases of meningeal leukemia out of 146 cases leukemia during 10 years from 1962 to 1971 at department of pediatrics, Seoul National University Hospital.
1. Sex ratio of male : female was 9:2. Considering the sex ratio the total leukemia children in Korea (male: female = 3:1), the predominance in male is not sigificant.
2. The peak age was 5 to 9 years.
3. The incidence according to the types of leukemia: 6 cases in acute lymohocytic leukemia and 3 cases in acute myelocytic.
4. The time internal between the diagnosis and leukemia to the onset of meningeal leukemia was average 8 months and 22 days.
5. ommon cheif complaints were headache (10 cases) and nausea and vomiting (8 cases). papolledema and neck-stiffness or Kernig´s sign were positive in half of the cases.
6. The charateristic CSF findings of meningeal leukemia was pleccytcsis. The CSF glucose level and the protein level was variable.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
 
|