Fever of unknown origin (FUO) due to Rosai-Dorfman disease with mediastinal adenopathy mimicking lymphoma: Diagnostic importance of elevated serum ferritin levels and polyclonal gammopathy

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 83-88

  Cunha, Burke A ^a,b   Durie, Nicole ^b   Selbs, Elena ^b   Pherez, Francisco ^b  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GAMMOPATHY; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPHADENOPATHY; POLYCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; ROSAI DORFMAN DISEASE; SINUS HISTIOCYTOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FERRITINS; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HISTIOCYTOSIS, SINUS; HUMANS; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149486190     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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