Appendectomy in a child with cyclic neutropenia in profound neutropenic episode
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Appendectomy in a child with cyclic neutropenia in profound neutropenic episode
Our experience in the treatment of a 4-year-old boy with cyclic neutropenia who was admitted for urgent appendectomy is described. The postoperative course was uneventful with high daily doses of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and antimicrobial therapy. The purpose of this report is to highlight the importance of immediate appendectomy in neutropenic patients, wherein low absolute neutro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1178-203X
DOI: 10.2147/tcrm.s89488