Adult onset Stills disease in a tertiary care hospital of Pakistan

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 464-467

  Abid, Naushad ^a   Khalid, Abdullah Bin ^b  

^a KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; DNA ANTIBODY; FERRITIN; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; STEROID;

ADULT; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ANEMIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CHRONIC ARTHRITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYALGIA; PAKISTAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SORE THROAT; SPLENOMEGALY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; FEVER; HUMANS; PAKISTAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET; TERTIARY HEALTHCARE;

EID: 67651165246     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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