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Table 6 Final diagnosis after clinical ID consultations (n = 474)

From: Infectious disease specialist consultations in a Japanese cancer center: a retrospective review of 776 cases

Final diagnosis

Patients n (%)

Infectious conditions

433 (91.4)

 Hepatobiliary tract infections

97 (20.5)

 Respiratory infections

89 (18.8)

 Intra-abdominal infectionsa

71 (15.0)

 Genitourinary infections

48 (10.1)

 Skin and soft tissue infections

38 (8.0)

 CRBSIb

32 (6.8)

 Bone and joint infections

14 (3.0)

 Gastrointestinal infection

12 (2.5)

 Febrile neutropenia

8 (1.7)

 Deep neck infections

7 (1.5)

 CNSc infections

6 (1.3)

 Cardiovascular infections

3 (0.6)

 Other

8 (1.7)

Non-infectious conditions

40 (8.4)

 Cancer-associatedd

16 (3.4)

 Other

24 (5.1)

Unknown

1 (0.2)

  1. a The 71 patients with intra-abdominal infections included peritonitis or peritoneal abscess (n = 57), intra-tumor infection (n = 8), appendicitis (n = 4), and lymphocyst infection (n = 2)
  2. bCRBSI: catheter-related blood stream infection; cCNS: central nervous system
  3. d The 16 patients with cancer-associated diseases included cancer or metastasis (n = 9), and tumor fever (n = 7)