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Risk assessment in fever and neutropenia in children with cancer: What did we learn?
Critical reviews in oncology/hematology - 1 Oct 2009
te Poele Esther M, Tissing Wim J E, Kamps Willem A, de Bont Eveline S J M
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Children with cancer treated with chemotherapy are susceptible to bacterial infections and serious infectious complications. However, fever and neutropenia can also result from other causes, for which no antibiotic treatment is needed. In the past decades attempts have been made to stratify the heterogeneous group of pediatric cancer patients with fever and neutropenia into high- and low-risk groups for bacterial...
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