Sustained, progressive, nonresolving abdominal pain: A previously undescribed clinical presentation of familial Mediterranean fever

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 914-916

  Radisic, Marcelo ^a   Santamarina, Joaquin ^a   Froment, Roberto ^a  

^a Sanatorio de la Trinidad   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Colchicine; Familial Mediterranean fever

Indexed keywords

ASTRINGENT AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; COLCHICINE; IBUPROFEN; OMEPRAZOLE; PARGEVERINE; TRAMADOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; COLCHICINE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEVER; HUMANS; MALE; RETREATMENT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33749166795     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-005-0093-1     Document Type: Article

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