Admission clinical and laboratory factors associated with death in children with cancer during a febrile neutropenic episode.

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Published in Pediatr Infect Dis J on September 01, 2007

Authors

María E Santolaya1, Ana M Alvarez, Carmen L Avilés, Ana Becker, Claudio Mosso, Miguel O'Ryan, Ernesto Payá, Carmen Salgado, Pamela Silva, Santiago Topelberg, Juan Tordecilla, Mónica Varas, Milena Villarroel, Tamara Viviani, Marcela Zubieta

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Luis Calvo Mackennna, Santiago, Chile. msantola@med.uchile.cl

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