Identification of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) in a Gypsy woman: A case report [2]

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 4 SUPPL. 45, 2007, Pages

  Kovacs G ^a   Tarjan E ^a   Magyar, P ^a   Nagy, E ^b   Müzes, Gy ^b   Ben Chetrit, E ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; COLCHICINE; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN MEFV; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SCREENING; GIPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANGIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG RESPONSE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEVER; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MEFV GENE; PAIN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEROLOGY; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GYPSIES; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 35448987746     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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