Early detection by ultrasound scan of severe post- chemotherapy gut complications in patients with acute leukemia

Haematologica

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 222-225

  Picardi, Marco ^a   Selleri, Carmine ^a   Camera, Andrea ^a   Catalano, Lucio ^a   Rotoli, Bruno ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Divisione di Ematologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute leukemia; Intensive chemotherapy; Remission induction; Severe intestinal complications; Ultrasound scan

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTEROCOLITIS; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PROGNOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CYTARABINE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ENTEROCOLITIS; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; IDARUBICIN; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L2; LEUKEMIA, MYELOMONOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, PROMYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032877785     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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