Neutropenic enterocolitis

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 44-47

  Davila, Marta L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute leukemia; Gastrointestinal complications during chemotherapy; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Neutropenic enterocolitis; Typhlitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; LETHALITY; LEUKEMIA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORTALITY; NEUTROPENIC ENTEROCOLITIS; OVARY CANCER; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT CARE; PERITONEUM CANCER; REVIEW; SOLID TUMOR; TYPHLITIS; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENTEROCOLITIS, NEUTROPENIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644828332     PISSN: 02671379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mog.0000198073.14169.3b     Document Type: Review

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