Cytokine and Acute-Phase Reactant Levels in Serum of Children with Cancer Admitted for Fever and Neutropenia

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 432-436

  Riikonen, Pekka ^a   Saarinen, Ulla M ^a   Teppo, Anna Maija ^a   Metsärinne, Kaj ^a   Fyhrquist, Frej ^a   Jalanko, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CILASTATIN; CYTOKINE; IMIPENEM; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; SERUM AMYLOID A; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ADOLESCENT; AMYLOID PROTEIN SAA; BACTEREMIA; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERLEUKIN-1; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NEUTROPENIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

EID: 0026749627     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/166.2.432     Document Type: Article

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