Typhlitis in childhood cancer

Cancer

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 380-387

  McCarville, M Beth ^a   Adelman, C Scott ^a   Li, Chenghong ^a   Xiong, Xiaoping ^a   Furman, Wayne L ^a,b   Razzouk, Bassem I ^a,b   Pui, Ching Hon ^a,b   Sandlund, John T ^a,b  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Child; Colitis; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Neoplasms; Neutropenia

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; MEROPENEM; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COLON DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE WALL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TYPHLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 22244457033     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21134     Document Type: Article

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