Neutropenic enterocolitis in children and young adults with cancer: Prognostic value of clinical and image findings

Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 462-470

  Rizzatti, Marcelo ^a   Brandalise, Silvia Regina ^b   Azevedo, Amilcar Cardoso De ^a   Pinheiro, Vitria Régia Pereira ^a   Aguiar, Simone Dos Santos ^a  

^a CENTRO INFANTIL BOLDRINI   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Enterocolitis; Neutropenia; Pediatric oncology

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; ECHOGRAPHY; EWING SARCOMA; GENDER; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INTESTINE WALL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MESOTHELIOMA; NEOPLASM; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUTROPENIC ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTARABINE; ENTEROCOLITIS, NEUTROPENIC; HUMANS; INTESTINES; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77956135007     PISSN: 08880018     EISSN: 15210669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08880018.2010.489934     Document Type: Article

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