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Should Blood Cultures be Performed in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients?

BACKGROUND: No evidence-based guidelines or protocols to treat the infection-related symptoms in cancer patients with terminal stages have been established. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed all the patients with terminal stage cancer who died between April 2009 and March 2010. The...

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Autores principales: Asai, Nobuhiro, Aoshima, Masahiro, Ohkuni, Yoshihiro, Otsuka, Yoshihito, Kaneko, Norihiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3401733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22837610
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.97348