Does this adult patient have septic arthritis?

JAMA

Volumn 297, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1478-1488

  Margaretten, Mary E ^a,b   Kohlwes, Jeffrey ^b   Moore, Dan ^a   Bent, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANAMNESIS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHROCENTESIS; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEVER; HUMAN; JOINT SWELLING; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SYNOVIAL FLUID; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL;

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHILS; RISK FACTORS; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 34047207846     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.297.13.1478     Document Type: Review

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