Routine versus selective antifungal administration for control of fungal infections in patients with cancer

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2017, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Gøtzsche, Peter C ^a   Johansen, Helle Krogh ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; MICONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE;

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOLOGY; META ANALYSIS; MYCOSES; NEOPLASM; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MYCOSES; NEOPLASMS; NEUTROPENIA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84942739935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD000026.pub2     Document Type: Review

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