"My foot hurts": A flare of rheumatoid arthritis?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 190, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 392-393

  Dugar, Manish ^a   Rankin, Wayne A ^b   Rowe, Emily ^a   Smith, Malcolm D ^a  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; LEFLUNOMIDE; MEROPENEM; METHOTREXATE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; STEROID;

ADULT; ANKLE EDEMA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; DETERIORATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOOT EDEMA; FOOT PAIN; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEGIONELLA LONGBEACHAE; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 65249186409     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02459.x     Document Type: Article

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