Familial Mediterranean fever: 36 years to diagnosis

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 1194, 2004, Pages

  Casey, Paul ^a   Lane, Mark ^a   Ameratunga, Rohan ^a  

^a University Hospital Auckland   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; COLCHICINE; PREDNISONE; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; MARENOSTRIN; PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESPONSE; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MIGRATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; ONSET AGE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERITONITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENETICS; JEW; MUTATION; STATISTICS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLCHICINE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; JEWS; MUTATION; NEW ZEALAND; PROTEINS;

EID: 3042587287     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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