Typhlitis (neutropenic enterocolitis) in patients with acute leukemia: a review
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DOI: 10.1080/17474086.2017.1280389
Abstract: ABSTRACT Introduction:Typhlitis is an abdominal complication of cancer chemotherapy, affecting mostly patients receiving intensive chemotherapeutic regimens with high potential to induce mucosal damage, such as patients with acute leukemia. Despite being relatively frequent, there are… read more here.
Keywords: patients acute; typhlitis neutropenic; acute leukemia; review ... See more keywords
Investigation of typhlitis in bone marrow transplant patients in a stem cell transplant unit
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DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000030104
Abstract: Typhlitis is a special type of enterocolitis that specifically develops in immunosuppressive patients with hematological malignancies. Typhlitis is a common consideration after bone marrow transplantation due to high-dose chemotherapy that is used in conditioning regimens… read more here.
Keywords: bone marrow; transplant patients; typhlitis; transplant ... See more keywords
Sonographic and Clinical Features of Typhlitis in Pediatric Cancer Patients on Chemotheaphy at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia, 2021
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DOI: 10.4314/ejhs.v32i1.5s
Abstract: Background Typhlitis, (neutropenic enterocolitis), is a necrotizing enteropathy of the right colon, and is characterized by the clinical triad of fever, abdominal pain, neutropenia and imaging findings of right-side colonic inflammation. It is seen in… read more here.
Keywords: pediatric cancer; typhlitis pediatric; cancer patients; sonographic clinical ... See more keywords