Challenges in surgical management of abdominal pain in the neutropenic cancer patient

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 248, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 104-109

  Badgwell, Brian D ^a   Cormier, Janice N ^a   Wray, Curtis J ^a   Borthakur, Gautam ^a   Qiao, Wei ^a   Rolston, Kenneth V ^a   Pollock, Raphael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHOLECYSTITIS; DISEASE DURATION; DIVERTICULITIS; ENTEROCOLITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL TIME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NEUTROPENIC ENTEROCOLITIS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENTEROCOLITIS, NEUTROPENIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEUTROPENIA; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 48949118939     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181724fe5     Document Type: Article

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