A prospective study to evaluate the role of procalcitonin in differentiating bloodstream infections from non-infectious fevers among patients with lymphoma

Authors :: Xiao Jun Wang
Vivianne Shih
Farid Mohamad
Richard Quek
Tiffany Pool Ling Tang
Miriam Tao
Thuan Tong Tan
Alexandre Chan
Soon Thye Lim
Source :: Journal of Clinical Oncology. 34:e19076-e19076
Publication Year :: 2016
Publisher :: American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2016.
Abstract: e19076Background: Patients with lymphoma experience fevers due to infections (with or without bacteremia), malignant fever or as a complication of cancer treatment. This study was designed to evalu...

Subjects :: Cancer Research
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
medicine.disease
Procalcitonin
Cancer treatment
Lymphoma
Oncology
Internal medicine
Bacteremia
Medicine
business
Complication
Prospective cohort study
Non infectious
Malignant fever

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