Diagnosis and management of adult onset Still's disease

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 564-572

  Efthimiou, P ^a,b   Paik, P K ^c   Bielory, L ^b  

^a DOC#4700 ^*  (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; ETANERCEPT; FERRITIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GOLD; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INDOMETACIN; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 1 ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 6 ANTIBODY; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NAPROXEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENICILLAMINE; PREDNISONE; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SALICYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ANTIBODY;

ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ARTHRITIS; BLURRED VISION; BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DOSE RESPONSE; GYNECOMASTIA; HEART FAILURE; HEPATITIS; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE REACTION; JOINT DESTRUCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LISTERIOSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NOCARDIOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SINUSITIS; SKIN ABSCESS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET;

EID: 33646252274     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2005.042143     Document Type: Review

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