Leukemia
Conditions
Brief summary
Early diagnosis of leukemia which is malignant tumor affecting bone especially in children is import to allow early intervention improving prognosis. It is known that leukemic patients suffer from clinical signs as anemia, thrombocytopenia, and pronounced hepatosplenomegaly or lymphadenopathy. However, sometimes these clinical signs may be not clearly manifested and may look like anemia. The early diagnosis could be achieved through dentist by accessing clinical and radiographical signs such as oral masses, gingival bleeding /or enlargement and oral ulceration with radiographical features including focal or generalized osteolysis of bone with presence of moth eating appearance and even with abnormal teeth chronology regarding teeth morphology, germ formation of permanent teeth and their sequence of eruption. Therefore, accessing of these special clinical and radiographical features by the dentist could help in early diagnosis of leukemic children patients
Detailed description
Ten children patients suffer from leukemia selected after initial diagnosis from hematology unit of faculty of medicine, Tanta university based on their clinical signs such as; bone pain, fatigability, lymph node enlargement…etc., with abnormal CBC revealing anemia or abnormal WBCs. These patients accessed clinically for oral signs and accessed radiographically using panoramic radiographs and cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) to evaluate chronology and bone density.
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Tanta University
Study design
Observational model
CASE_ONLY
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
6 Years to 10 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1-Children will be aged from 6-10 years 2 Children diagnosed with leukemia but they don't start treatment yet \-
Exclusion criteria
1. Children below or above the age 2. Children already diagnosed by leukemia and started treatment 3. Children diagnosed by other bone lesions showing osteolytic bone or anemia as thalassemia or sickle cell anemia or any other bone pathology
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ability to diagnose leukemic child patients who don't have manifesting systemic clinical signs from their clinical and radiographical oral signs | one year | theses leukemic child patients could be diagnosed based on observation of oral signs such as oral masse, ulcers lake normal red hallow, bone loss around teeth without presence of local factors, abnormal teeth chronology regarding teeth morphology and eruption, germ formation of permanent teeth and their sequence of eruption and abnormal bone density through panoramic and CBCT images |
Countries
Egypt
Outcome results
None listed