Nutritional Status of Children with Cancer: A Single Center Experience

DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Nutritional deficiency in children with cancer at the time of diagnosis is not much more than in children hospitalized due to acute infection. However, a temporary weight loss is observed in cancer patients during the follow up

Intragastric alendronate therapy in two infants with vitamin D intoxication: A new method

In recent years, alendronate, an oral biphosphonate, has been added to therapy of hypercalcemia secondary to vitamin D intoxication in children. Alendronate may cause mucosal ulcerations in the mouth and esophagus. We report our experience in two infants with vitamin D intoxication to whom alendronate therapy was administered through nasogastric tube, an alternate route for alendronate administration

Multicentric analysis of childhood tuberculosis in Turkey

Only a few series of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) have been reported in the last 20 years. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical, radiological, microbiological, and treatment characteristics of childhood TB