Now available in a thoroughly revised Twelfth Edition, Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology
continues to be an industry leader with its ability to correlate basic science with the clinical …

The treatment for most pediatric malignancies is based on systemic, aggressive
multimodality therapy including systemic antineoplastic and radiation therapy. Although this …

INFECTION remains the major cause of death in the patient with cancer, primarily as a
consequence of the profound alterations of normal host defenses which result from the …

Background Treatment of the central nervous system is crucial to the successful treatment of
acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children. The intensity and timing of the therapy are based …

Previous studies have established that leukocyte phagocytosis and intracellular killing are
normal in term and low-birthweight newborns who are well. To determine the effect of stress …

Granulocytopenia has been closely associated with cancer and its treatment. The risk for a
life‐threatening infection when the granulocyte count falls below 500/mm3 not only is an …

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Polymorphonuclear leukocytes isolated from chicken peritoneal exudates have been found
to catalyze cyanide-insensitive stimulation of respiration and the hexose monophosphate …

Summary¶ Use of CSF shunt devices is a common practice in neurosurgery, and infection of
the shunt is the most frequent complication. In spite of the fact that bacteria are the most …

Peripheral blood polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) function has been investigated for 46
children with kwashiorkor (without overt infection) in the Ivory Coast, West Africa. In vitro …