Hospital-based epidemiologic survey of malignancies in children infected with human immunodeficiency virus in Thailand

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2005 Oct;24(10):923-4. doi: 10.1097/01.inf.0000180972.63966.35.

Abstract

To determine the incidence and spectrum of malignancies in human immunodeficiency virus-infected children, we surveyed 48 hospitals in Thailand between 1996 and 2000. There were 23 children (14 boys and 9 girls; average age at diagnosis of malignancy, 4.2 years), and the incidence rate was 0.6 per 1000 person-years. The most common malignancy was lymphoma (87.0%). The prognosis was poor.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / epidemiology*
  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / mortality
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • HIV
  • HIV Infections / complications*
  • HIV Infections / epidemiology*
  • HIV Infections / mortality
  • HIV Infections / virology
  • Hospitals*
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Infant
  • Lymphoma, AIDS-Related / epidemiology*
  • Lymphoma, AIDS-Related / mortality
  • Male
  • Neoplasms / complications
  • Neoplasms / epidemiology*
  • Neoplasms / mortality
  • Thailand / epidemiology