Saturday night fever: Bizarre recurrence of fever attacks in a patient carrying a mutation in both the MEFV and TNFRSF1A genes

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Cantarini, Luca ^a   Baldari, C T ^a   Rossi Paccani, S ^a   Laghi Pasini, F ^a   Galeazzi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; GENE PRODUCT; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MARENOSTRIN; PARACETAMOL; SERUM AMYLOID A; STEROID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ARTHRITIS; CASE REPORT; COLD CLIMATE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT FEVER; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED PERIODIC SYNDROME;

EID: 55049141198     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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