Growth in familial mediterranean fever: Effect of attack rate, genotype and colchicine treatment

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 789-792

  Türkmen, Mehmet ^a   Soylu, Özlem Bekem ^a   Kasap, Belde ^a   Güneş, Sezgin ^a   Tüfekçi, Özlem ^a   Soylu, Alper ^a,b   Erçal, Derya ^a   Kavukçu, Salih ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Colchicine; Familial mediterranean fever; Genotype; Growth

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLCHICINE; FIBRINOGEN;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PREPUBERTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 52649158762     PISSN: 0334018X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPEM.2008.21.8.789     Document Type: Article

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