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Performance of Interleukin-6 and Interleukin-8 serum levels in pediatric oncology patients with neutropenia and fever for the assessment of low-risk

BACKGROUND: Patients with chemotherapy-related neutropenia and fever are usually hospitalized and treated on empirical intravenous broad-spectrum antibiotic regimens. Early diagnosis of sepsis in children with febrile neutropenia remains difficult due to non-specific clinical and laboratory signs of...

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Autores principales: Diepold, Miriam, Noellke, Peter, Duffner, Ulrich, Kontny, Udo, Berner, Reinhard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2292194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18321393
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-8-28