Title | Adrenal and Endocrine Tumors in Children [electronic resource] : Adrenal Cortical Carcinoma and Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia / edited by G. Bennett Humphrey, Gerald B. Grindey, Louis P. Dehner, Ronald T. Acton, Theodore J. Pysher |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1983 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3891-8 |
Descript | XVI, 378 p. online resource |
Section 1 -- 1. The use of young nude mice to study metastasis of human neoplasms -- 2. Potentials and limitations for the use of radiation sensitizers of resistant hypoxic cells in tumors -- 3. A review of evidence that the feline leukemia virus (FeLV) might be causative in childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) -- 4. Inhibitors of microtubule formation -- 5. Biochemical modulation as a guide to rational combination chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer -- 6. Psychological intervention for pain in pediatric cancer patients -- Section 2 -- 7. The role of ultrasonography, computed tomography, scintigraphy and angiography in the localization of adrenal disease -- 8. The surgical management of tumors of the adrenal gland -- 9. Pathologic features of childhood adrenocortical tumors -- 10. The multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes -- 11. Adrenal cortical carcinoma in children: 42 patients treated from 1958 to 1980 at Villejuif -- 12. Functioning adrenocortical tumors in childhood -- 13. Adrenocortical neoplasia in the pediatric age group: A clinicopathologic study of seven cases -- 14. Adrenocortical carcinoma in children: Experience at the Childrenโs Hospital of Philadelphia, 1961โ1980 -- 15. Adrenocortical carcinoma in children -- 16. Adrenal cortical carcinoma and multiple endocrine neoplasia -- 17. Experience with adrenal cortical carcinoma in children -- 18. Cancer of the adrenal gland in children: Experience at the M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute -- 19. Carcinoma of the adrenal gland in children: A study of 12 patients -- 20. Childhood multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) medullary thyroid carcinoma, pheochromocytoma and adrenal cortical carcinoma: MCH experience -- 21. Multiple endocrine neoplasia Type 2b: Experience at Villejuif -- 22. Overview on the management of adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) -- 23. Overview of the multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes in infancy and childhood