Clinical and microbiological characteristics of neutropenic enterocolitis in adults with blood cancer in the National Cancer Institute of Bogota D.C. (Colombia);Características clínicas y microbiológicas de la colitis neutropénica en adultos con neoplasias hematológicas del Instituto Nacional de Cancerología de Bogotá D.C. (Colombia)

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 462-466

  Cardona, Andrés Felipe ^a   Combariza, Juan Felipe ^a   Reveiz, Ludovic ^b,c   Ospina, Edgar Guillermo ^b   Poveda, Claudia Marcela ^a   Ruiz, Carlos Adrián ^a   Ramos, Pedro ^a   Aponte, Diego Mauricio ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^b Sanitas International Organization   (Colombia)

^c Centro Médico Palermo   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Blood cancer; Chemotherapeutic agents; Chemotherapy; Colitis; Enterocolitis; Neutropenia; Typhlitis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BUSULFAN; CEFEPIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CISPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; DAUNORUBICIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUCONAZOLE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METRONIDAZOLE; PREDNISONE; SULPERAZON; VANCOMYCIN; VINCRISTINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD DISEASE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MELENA; MORTALITY; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPENIC ENTEROCOLITIS; RISK FACTOR; VOMITING;

EID: 8644274004     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13066853     Document Type: Article

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