Adult-onset Still's disease: A report of 28 cases and review of the literature

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 480-485

  Mehrpoor, Golbarg ^a   Owlia, Mohammad Bagher ^a   Soleimani, Hossein ^a   Ayatollahi, Jamshid ^a  

^a SHAHID SADOUGHI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adult onset Still's disease (AOSD); Dermatographism; Dermographism; FUO; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLOSPORIN; FERRITIN; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB;

ADULT; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMOGRAPHISM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; HUMAN; IRAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; PERICARDITIS; POLYARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RASH; SORE THROAT; SPLENOMEGALY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; MALE; SKIN DISEASES; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53549123263     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-008-0104-6     Document Type: Article

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