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Prospective cohort study of procalcitonin levels in children with cancer presenting with febrile neutropenia

BACKGROUND: Febrile neutropenia (FNP) causes significant morbidity and mortality in children undergoing treatment for cancer. The development of clinical decision rules to help stratify risks in paediatric FNP patients and the use of inflammatory biomarkers to identify high risk patients is an area...

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Autores principales: Hemming, Victoria, Jakes, Adam D., Shenton, Geoff, Phillips, Bob
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5217195/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28056911
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-016-0766-8