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Neutropenic enterocolitis
1Department of Infectious Disease, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, 620 John Paul Jones Circle, Portsmouth, VA 23708, USA. mfbavaro@pnh10.med.navy.mil
Current Gastroenterology Reports
|August 1, 2002
Abstract:
Neutropenic enterocolitis is an acute syndrome characterized by cecal and ascending colon inflammation that may progress to necrosis and perforation. It is most often associated with leukemia but has also been described in patients with solid tumors, multiple myeloma, aplastic anemia, AIDS, and cyclic neutropenia. Medical management usually suffices, but surgical intervention may be required.