Successful extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in four children with malignant disease and severe pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-31

  Lindén, Viveka ^a   Karlén, Jonas ^a   Olsson, Mats ^b   Palmér, Kenneth ^a   Ehrén, Henrik ^a   Henter, Jan Inge ^a   Kalin, Mats ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Childhood malignancies; Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; MALE; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LUNG; MALE; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032946671     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-911X(199901)32:1<25::AID-MPO6>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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