A prospective multicenter study on fever of unknown origin: The yield of a structured diagnostic protocol

Medicine

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 26-38

  Bleeker Rovers, Chantal P ^a   Vos, Fidel J ^a   De Kleijn, Elisabeth M H A ^a   Mudde, Aart H ^b   Dofferhoff, Ton S M ^c   Richter, Clemens ^d   Smilde, Tineke J ^e   Krabbe, Paul F M ^a   Oyen, Wim J G ^a   Van Der Meer, Jos W M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SLINGELAND HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e JEROEN BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CRYOGLOBULIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; BODY TEMPERATURE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE DURATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; NETHERLANDS; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SCREENING TEST; STANDARDIZATION; TEMPORAL ARTERY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, SURGICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33846227063     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0b013e31802fe858     Document Type: Article

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