Diagnosis of malignancies in children with musculoskeletal complaints

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Table 1. Distribution of children with neoplasia diagnosis attended in a public hospital in Brazil, according to the demographic, clinical and musculoskeletal characteristics and laboratory tests.

Patient (gender)	1 (M)	2 (F)	3 (F)	4 (F)	5 (M)	6 (M)	7 (M)	8 (F)	9 (M)
Age (years) at onset of symptoms	2.5	3.9	4.2	4.5	4.9	5.8	7.0	12.2	13.8
Constitutional symptoms	Daily fever	Daily fever, asthenia, weight loss	Daily fever, asthenia	Daily fever	Daily fever, anorexia	Sporadic fever	Sporadic fever	Daily fever, anorexia	Daily fever
Initial diagnosis	Reactive arthritis	Juvenile rheuma-toid arthritis	Reactive arthritis	Juvenile der-matomyositis	Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis	Rheumatic fever	Limb pain	Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis	Juvenile rheu-matoid arthritis
Final diagnosis	Neuroblastoma	Acute myeloid leukemia	Acute lympho-cytic leukemia	Acute lym-phocytic leukemia	Acute lympho-cytic leukemia	Acute lympho-cytic leukemia	Ewing's sarcoma	Hodgkin's lymphoma	Acute myeloid leukemia
Months until final diagnosis	3	3	2	6	18	5	2	2	4
Pain	Left hip, cervical spine	Right knee, left hip	-	Left knee, metacarpo-phalangeal, lumbar spine	Knees, lower limbs	Left thigh, left leg	Right thigh	Right hip, right thigh	Right shoulder, right wrist
Arthritis	-	Right wrist, right ankle, knees	Knees	Left ankle, metacarpo-phalangeal, sacroiliac	-	Left knee	-	-	Temporoman-dibular joint, hips, left wrist, left knee, right ankle
Relief	Nonsteroidal anti-inflamma-tory drugs	Analgesics	Spontaneous	Massage, nonsteroidal anti-inflamma-tory drugs	Spontaneous	Massage	Analgesics	Massage, analgesics	Analgesics
Hemoglobin (g/dl)	10.7	6.4	9.5	10.6	10.3	10.8	12.0	11.3	12.0
Leukocytes (n/mm3)	5,100	19,000	4,300	3,700	9,300	6,100	7,500	8,600	3,600
Platelets (p/mm3)	272,000	130,000	108,000	126,000	-	166,000	212,000	450,000	165,000
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (mm/h)	68	72	103	91	-	33	14	5	33
C-reactive protein (mg/dl)	Positive	Negative	12	316	Negative	-	Negative	Negative	24
Lactic dehydro-genase (U/l)	947	1,644	410	2,330	-	607	410	461	325

F = female; M = male. Normal values for laboratory tests = hemoglobin > 11 g/dl; leukocytes > 3,500 and < 10,000/mm³; platelets > 150,000/mm³; erythrocyte sedi-mentation rate < 20 mm/h; C-reactive protein > 7 mg/dl and lactic dehydrogenase > 460 U/l.