Diagnosis, incidence, and outcomes of suspected typhlitis in oncology patients-experience in a tertiary pediatric surgical center in the United Kingdom

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 381-385

  Mullassery, Dhanya ^a   Bader, Abdulgader ^a   Battersby, Anna J ^a   Mohammad, Zeenat ^a   Jones, Emma Louise L ^a   Parmar, Chetan ^a   Scott, Roger ^a   Pizer, Barry L ^a   Baillie, Colin T ^a  

^a ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Neutropenic enterocolitis; Pediatric oncology; Typhlitis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; METRONIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE NECROSIS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; STOMACH ULCER; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TYPHLITIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TYPHLITIS;

EID: 60149105689     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2008.10.094     Document Type: Article

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