Fever of Unknown Origin in Rheumatic Diseases

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1115-1135

  Zenone, Thierry ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE VALENCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; ELECTROLYTE; FERRITIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; BEHCET DISEASE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROHN DISEASE; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; GRANULOMATOSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFECTION; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; NEOPLASM; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; POLYMYOSITIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RELAPSING POLYCHONDRITIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; URINE CULTURE; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE, CHRONIC; HUMANS; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; VASCULITIS;

EID: 36448934103     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2007.08.006     Document Type: Review

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