Familial Mediterranean fever associated with type 1 diabetes: Association or coincidence?

Endocrinologist

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 133-135

  Atabek, Mehmet Emre ^a   Pirgon, Ozgur ^a   Sert, Ahmet ^a   Arslan, Ugur ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Familial Mediterranean fever; Type 1 diabetes

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; INSULIN;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LABORATORY TEST; MEFV GENE; PERITONITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURISY; SCHOOL CHILD; SYNOVITIS;

EID: 33748497063     PISSN: 10512144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ten.0000217875.07954.6e     Document Type: Article

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