Colchicine treatment in children with familial Mediterranean fever

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 314-317

  Ozkaya N ^a   Yalcinkaya F ^a,b  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Childhood; Colchicine; Familial Mediterranean fever

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLCHICINE; FIBRINOGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLCHICINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0344897689     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-003-0739-9     Document Type: Article

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