Assessment of procalcitonin as a diagnos
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Antonio Jimeno; Adelaida García-Velasco; Olga del Val; Enrique González-Billalab
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Cancer patients with fever and neutropenia currently are assessed on clinical grounds only. The current study prospectively evaluated the efficacy of baseline procalcitonin (PCT) in the detection of bacteremia and in the prediction of outcome in patients with solid tumors