Clinical Study
Nosocomial Infections among Pediatric Patients with Neoplastic Diseases
Table 1
Demographic characteristics of study samples.
| | Demographic characteristics | Number of admissions (%) () | Number NIs (%) () |
| | Gender and age | | | | Male : Female | 380 (53.7) : 327 (46.3) | 27 (58.7) : 19 (41.3) | | Mean age | | | | Underlying diseases | | | | Hematologic neoplasia | | | | Acute lymphoblastic leukemia | 417 (59.0) | 19 (41.3) | | Acute myeloblastic leukemia | 59 (8.4) | 16 (34.8) | | Non-Hodgkin lymphoma | 27 (3.8) | 1 (2.2) | | Hodgkin disease | 11 (1.6) | 1 (2.2) | | Chronic myeloid leukemia | 11 (1.6) | — | | Solid tumor | | | | Bone tumor | | | | Osteosarcoma | 31 (4.4) | 1 (2.2) | | Ewing’s sarcoma | 25 (3.5) | — | | Neuroblastoma | 29 (4.1) | — | | Hepatoblastoma | 14 (2.0) | — | | Retinoblastoma | 14 (2.0) | — | | Rhabdomyosarcoma | 13 (1.8) | — | | Wilm tumor | 10 (1.4) | 1 (2.2) | | Hepatoma | 7 (1.0) | — | | Germ cell tumor | 5 (0.7) | 1 (2.2) | | CNS tumor | 34 (4.8) | 6 (13.1) |
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+: Astrocytoma, Medulloblastoma, Medulloepithelioma, Ependymoma.
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