Fever of unknown origin: Discrimination between infectious and non-infectious causes

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 137-143

  Efstathiou, Stamatis P ^a   Pefanis, Angelos V ^a   Tsiakou, Aphrodite G ^a   Skeva, Irini I ^a   Tsioulos, Dimitrios I ^a   Achimastos, Apostolos D ^a   Mountokalakis, Theodore D ^a  

^a SOTIRIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Diagnostic accuracy; Fever of unknown origin; Infection; Sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; FERRITINS; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77549085507     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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