Childhood diseases are still with us, in spite of the tremendous advances medicine has made with vaccines. Although the majority of these diseases are infectious, there are many important malignancies that may have a different and unique clinical course when occurring in childhood. Pathologists who specialize in the diagnosis of these rare and complicated diseases and syndromes are known as pediatric pathologists.

Common Infectious Childhood Diseases

• Measles
• Mumps
• Chicken pox
• Rubella
• Erythema infectiousum (5th Disease)

Common Neoplastic Childhood Diseases

• Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• Hepatoblastoma
• Osteosarcoma
• Small Round Blue Cell Tumors (Neuroblastoma, Ewing's Sarcoma, PNET, Rhabdomyosarcoma)
• Wilm's Tumor

Congenital, Metabolic, and Genetic Diseases

Last Updated 6/6/2001

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