Fever of Unknown Origin: Focused Diagnostic Approach Based on Clinical Clues from the History, Physical Examination, and Laboratory Tests

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1137-1187

  Cunha, Burke A ^a,b  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CRYOGLOBULIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FERRITIN; NAPROXEN; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SM ANTIBODY;

ABSCESS; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTHRALGIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRADYCARDIA; BRUCELLOSIS; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM METASTASIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIKUCHI DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MALARIA; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYALGIA; NEOPLASM; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMODIUM; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRELEUKEMIA; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; Q FEVER; RAT BITE FEVER; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SARCOIDOSIS; SUBACUTE ENDOCARDITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TRICHINOSIS; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; TYPHOID FEVER; VIRUS INFECTION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; NAPROXEN; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RHEUMATIC DISEASES;

EID: 36448971210     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2007.09.004     Document Type: Review

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