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Ependymoma: results, prognostic factors and treatment recommendations by McLaughlin, M P, Marcus, Jr, R B, Buatti, J M, McCollough, W M, Mickle, J P, Kedar, A, Maria, B L, Million, R R

“…To review the University of Florida experience in treating ependymomas, analyze prognostic factors, and provide treatment recommendations. Forty-one patients…”
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Acupuncture for cancer patients by Kedar, Amos, Hakimian, Aliza, Gamus, Dorit

“…This article presents key studies on the use of acupuncture in the management of different adverse reactions to cancer treatments. Acupuncture should be…”
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Outcome after radiotherapy of primary spinal cord glial tumors by McLaughlin, M P, Buatti, J M, Marcus, Jr, R B, Maria, B L, Mickle, P J, Kedar, A

“…Primary spinal cord tumors are rare, and treatment recommendations are therefore difficult. We reviewed a 22-year experience of postoperative radiotherapy for…”
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Hypnosis in palliative care by Gamus, Dorit, Kedar, Amos, Kleinhauz, Moris

“…The aim of this article is to review studies on the effect of mind-body therapies, and specifically that of hypnotherapy in palliative care and to asses its…”
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A new point mutation in a hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase-deficient patient by HIDALGO-LAOS, R. I, KEDAR, A, WILLIAMS, C. A, NEIBERGER, R. E

“…A 12-year-old boy was referred because of abdominal pain, gross hematuria, and passage of stones. Further evaluation showed growth delay, low average range of…”
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Unrelated cord blood transplantation in children with sickle cell disease: Review of four-center experience by Adamkiewicz, Tom V., Szabolcs, Paul, Haight, Ann, Baker, K. Scott, Staba, Susan, Kedar, Amos, Chiang, K. Y., Krishnamurti, Lakshmanan, Boyer, Michael W., Kurtzberg, Joan, Wagner, John E., Wingard, John R., Yeager, Andrew M.

“…:  UCBT was performed in seven children with SCD and stroke (HLA match 4/6 n = 5; 5/6 n = 2). Four received myeloablative regimens (BU, CY, ATG plus FLU in one…”
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Response of osteogenic sarcoma to the combination of etoposide and cyclophosphamide as neoadjuvant chemotherapy by Saleh, R A, Graham-Pole, J, Cassano, W, Abbot, F, Vander Griend, R, Dickson, N, Metha, P, Heare, M, Kedar, A, Heare, T

“…A Phase II study of the combination of etoposide (VP-16) and cyclophosphamide (CPM) was conducted in an attempt to identify active and potentially less toxic…”
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Value of thallium-201 SPECT imaging in childhood brain tumors by Maria, B L, Drane, W E, Quisling, R G, Ringdahl, D M, Mickle, J P, Mendenhall, N P, Marcus, Jr, R B, McCollough, W M, Hamed, L M, Eskin, T A

“…Thallium-201 chloride single photon emission computed tomography (201Tl SPECT) has been proposed as a diagnostic tool in the assessment of patients with brain…”
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RheothRx (Poloxamer 188) injection for the acute painful episode of sickle cell disease: A pilot study by ADAMS-GRAVES, P, KEDAR, A, KOSHY, M, STEINBERG, M, VEITH, R, WARD, D, CRAWFORD, R, EDWARDS, S, BUSTRACK, J, EMANUELE, M

“…RheothRx (Glaxo Wellcome Inc, Research Triangle Park, NC; poloxamer 188) Injection is a nonionic surfactant with hemorrheologic properties that suggest it may…”
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Unrelated Cord Blood Transplantation (UCBT) in Children with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD): US Centers Experience by Adamkiewicz, Tom V., Haight, Ann, Mazur, Melissa A., Baker, K. Scott, Szabolcs, Paul, Kedar, Amos, Chiang, K.Y., Krishnamurti, Lakshmanan, Wagner, John E., Wingard, John R., Yeager, Andrew M.

“…UCBT may be curative in patients (pts) with high-risk SCD. Unrelated cord blood units matched at >4/6 HLA are acceptable for UCBTs and available to most pts…”
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Measurement of cerebrovascular flow reserve in pediatric patients with sickle cell disease by Kedar, Amos, Drane, Walter E., Shaeffer, Douglas, Nicole, Michael, Adams, Caroline

“…Purpose To report a method for determining absolute percentage change in cerebral blood flow (measurement of cerebrovascular reserve) before and after…”
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Medulloblastoma: time-dose relationship based on a 30-year review by del Charco, J O, Bolek, T W, McCollough, W M, Maria, B L, Kedar, A, Braylan, R C, Mickle, J P, Buatti, J M, Mendenhall, N P, Marcus, Jr, R B

“…Time-dose relationships have proven important in many cancer sites. This study evaluates the time factors involved in the successful postoperative radiotherapy…”
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Sebastian syndrome with abnormal platelet response to ristocetin by Redman, Rachel, Shunkwiler, Sara M, Harris, Neil S, Kedar, Amos, Clapp, William L

“…Sebastian syndrome is characterized by enlarged platelets and Döhle-like body leukocyte inclusions. This syndrome is an MYH-9-related disease, a group that…”
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Chemotherapy for pediatric brain tumors by Kedar, Amos

“…Advances have recently been made in the use of chemotherapy for pediatric brain tumors. Chemotherapy increases disease-free survival in high-risk primltive…”
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Thalidomide in Children Undergoing Bone Marrow Transplantation: Series at a Single Institution and Review of the Literature by Mehta, Paulette, Kedar, Amos, Graham-Pole, John, Skoda-Smith, Suzanne, Wingard, John R

“…Thalidomide has one of the most notorious drug histories because of its teratogenicity. Its widespread use in the 1960s led to a worldwide epidemic of…”
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Atrial natriuretic peptide as a marker for doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxic effects by Bauch, M, Ester, A, Kimura, B, Victorica, B E, Kedar, A, Phillips, M I

“…Doxorubicin is an effective antineoplastic agent, but it frequently causes dose-related cardiotoxic effects. Because the atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) level…”
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Adoptive Immunotherapy in Children Compared to Adults by Mehta, Paulette, Graham-Pole, John R, Kedar, Amos, Skoda-Smith, Suzanne, Weeks, Fred, Moreb, Jan, Khan, Shahab, Peracha, Sajid, Wingard, John R

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Philadelphia Chromosome and Monosomy 7 in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Pediatric Oncology Group Study by Russo, Carolyn, Carroll, Andrew, Kohler, Sabine, Borowitz, Michael, Amylon, Michael, Homans, Alan, Kedar, Amos, Shuster, Jonathan, Land, Vita, Crist, William, Pullen, Jeanette, Link, Michael

“…During an 8-year period, 3,638 children from institutions of the Pediatric Oncology Group (POG) were diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)…”
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LYMPHOHISTIOCYTIC ANAPLASTIC LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA STAGE I: Long-Term Survival after Resection Alone by Kedar, Amos, Braylan, Raul C.

“…A 17-year-old female presented with axillary lymphadenopathy, which, on biopsy, demonstrated an anaplastic large cell lymphoma of the lymphohistiocytic type…”
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Clinical versus laboratory tumor lysis syndrome in children with acute leukemia by Kedar, A, Grow, W, Neiberger, R E

“…Renal and metabolic complications of tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) were recognized frequently in the 1960s and 1970s. Strategies were designed to prevent TLS. We…”
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