Systematic review of case reports concerning adults suffering from neutropenic enterocolitis

Clinical and Translational Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-38

  Cardona Zorrilla, Andrés Felipe ^a   Herault, Ludovic Reveiz ^b   Casasbuenas, Alexandra ^c   Aponte, Diego Mauricio ^a   Ramos, Pedro Luis ^a  

^a Instituto Nacional de Cancerología   (Colombia)

^b Clinica Reina Sofia   (Colombia)

^c HOSPITAL DE SAN JOSÉ   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Cecitis; Ileocecal syndrome; Necrotising enterocolitis; Neutropenic colitis; Neutropenic enterocolitis; Typhlitis

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CARBAPENEM; CYTARABINE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; DOCETAXEL; FLUCONAZOLE; NAVELBINE; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ASCITES; BLOOD CULTURE; COLON SURGERY; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; EARLY INTERVENTION; EMBASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FECES CULTURE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEITIS; INTESTINE DISTENSION; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; MEDLINE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; NEUTROPENIC ENTEROCOLITIS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TYPHLITIS; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEOPLASM; NEUTROPENIA; PATHOLOGY; PUBLISHING; RADIOGRAPHY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CASE MANAGEMENT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENTEROCOLITIS, NEUTROPENIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOSITIS; NEOPLASMS; NEUTROPENIA; PUBLISHING; SEX FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

EID: 33646849100     PISSN: 1699048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12094-006-0092-y     Document Type: Review

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