Conventional chest radiography in the initial assessment of adult cancer patients with fever and neutropenia

Cancer Control

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 346-351

  Navigante, Alfredo H ^a   Cerchietti, Leandro C A ^a   Costantini, Patricia ^a   Salgado, Horacio ^a   Castro, Mónica A ^a   Lutteral, Maribel A ^a   Cabalar, Maria E ^a  

^a Instituto de Oncologia Angel H Roffo   (Argentina)

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NEUTROPENIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036639993     PISSN: 10732748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107327480200900411     Document Type: Article

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