The utility of routine chest radiography in the initial evaluation of adult patients with febrile neutropenia patients undergoing HSCT

JNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 184-189

  Yolin Raley, Deborah S ^a   Dagogo Jack, Ibiayi ^a   Niell, Heidi B ^a   Soiffer, Robert J ^a   Antin, Joseph H ^a   Alyea, Edwin P ^a   Glotzbecker, Brett E ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFEPIME; IMIPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; APLASTIC ANEMIA; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HODGKIN DISEASE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PNEUMONIA; PRIMARY TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; COMPLICATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RADIOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923443971     PISSN: 15401405     EISSN: 15401413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2015.0027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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