## Abstract Neutropenic cancer patients were given carbenicillin, cephalothin, and gentamicin (CCG) during 51 evaluable episodes of fever of unknown origin. Patients in whom fever persisted despite these antibiotics and in whom infection had not been documented were randomized after 3 days either t
Management of fever of unknown origin in patients with neoplasms and neutropenia
β Scribed by Victorio Rodriguez; Michael Burgess; Gerald P. Bodey
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1973
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 452 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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