Is routine computed tomographic scanning justified in the first week of persistent febrile neutropenia in children with malignancies?

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 620-624

  Agrawal, Anurag K ^a   Saini, Neeraj ^b   Gildengorin, Ginny ^a   Feusner, James H ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND   (United States)

^b NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography scanners; Fever; Neutropenia

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANCER PATIENT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLEAR CELL SARCOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; EWING SARCOMA; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOSIS; NEUROBLASTOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SOLID TUMOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX; TYPHLITIS;

CHILD; FEVER; HUMANS; MYCOSES; NEOPLASMS; NEUTROPENIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79961198772     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.22974     Document Type: Article

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