Open AccessOutpatient Management of Febrile Neutropenia in Children with Cancer
Author(s) -
Ottavio Ziino,
Fábio C. Tucci,
Mario Rossi
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
pediatric reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
ISSN - 2036-7503
DOI - 10.4081/pr.2011.e8
Subject(s) - medicine , febrile neutropenia , neutropenia , consensus conference , intensive care medicine , pediatric oncology , blood cancer , cancer , hematology , chemotherapy , cancer treatment , pediatrics
Optimizing therapeutic strategies based on randomized treatment-comparison studies led to a better prognosis of nearly all pediatric malignancies in the past four decades. While morbidity and mortality of the malignancy itself have been reduced, infections, with or without severe neutropenia, remain the most frequent potentially lethal complications of therapy (1)
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