Neutropenic enterocolitis: Current issues in diagnosis and management

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 116-120

  Davila, Marta L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYTARABINE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; DAUNORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTEROPATHY; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LEUKEMIA; LEUKOPENIA; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPENIC ENTEROCOLITIS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REST; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 33947289641     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-007-0006-3     Document Type: Review

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