Neutropenia at the time of subcutaneous port insertion may not be a risk factor for early infectious complications in pediatric oncology patients
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Lisa T VanHouwelingen, Laura V Veras, Martin Lu, Lynn Wynn, John Wu, Hasmukh J Prajapati, Robert E Gold, Andrew J Murphy, Israel Fernandez-Pineda, Ankush Gosain, Ching-Hon Pui, Andrew M Davidoff
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The risk of infection associated with subcutaneous port (SQP) placement in patients with neutropenia remains unclear. We reviewed the rate of early infectious complications (
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