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    Biomedical Applications of DNA-Based Hydrogels

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    Design and Synthesis of Multifunctional Hybrid Hydrogels for Medicinal Applications

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    Appendectomy in a child with cyclic neutropenia in profound neutropenic episode

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    Nedeljka Glavan,1 Jelena Roganović,2 Lana Glavan-Gačanin,3 Nives Jonjić4 1Department of Pediatrics Surgery, 2Department of Pediatrics Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Centre Rijeka, 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Centre Rijeka, 4Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia Abstract: 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 neutrophil count should not be considered as a contraindication for urgent surgical procedure. Keywords: cyclic neutropenia, appendectomy, absolute neutrophil count (ANC
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