Fever of unknown origin: A diagnostic approach to this vexing problem

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 207-213

  Tolan Jr , Robert W ^a  

^a SAINT PETER S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Deconditioning; Fever; Fever of unknown origin; FUO; Immunocompromise; Pseudo FUO; Travelers

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACTINOMYCOSIS; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AMEBIASIS; ANAMNESIS; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANGIOFOLLICULAR LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; ANXIETY; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BABESIOSIS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BARIUM ENEMA; BARTONELLOSIS; BEHCET DISEASE; BLASTOMYCOSIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BORRELIA INFECTION; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRUCELLOSIS; CAFFEY DISEASE; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHOLANGITIS; CHRONIC ACTIVE HEPATITIS; CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS; CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; CINCA SYNDROME; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; COLITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DEHYDRATION; DENGUE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG FEVER; DYSAUTONOMIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENCEPHALITIS; ENDOCARDITIS; ENTERITIS; ENTEROCOLITIS; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EWING SARCOMA; FABRY DISEASE; FAMILIAL COLD AUTOINFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FECES CULTURE; GRANULOMATOUS HEPATITIS; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERIMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA D AND PERIODIC FEVER SYNDROME; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; INTOXICATION; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; KIKUCHI DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LEUKEMIA; LISTERIOSIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYME DISEASE; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; LYMPHOMA; MALARIA; MASTOIDITIS; MENINGITIS; MESENTERIC LYMPHADENITIS; MUCKLE WELLS SYNDROME; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; MYCOPLASMOSIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; MYOCARDITIS; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEPHROGENIC DIABETES INSIPIDUS; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUTROPENIA; NOTE; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; ORNITHOSIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PANCREATITIS; PELVIS ABSCESS; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; PFAPA SYNDROME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PICK PRESENILE DEMENTIA; PNEUMONIA; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRELEUKEMIA; PSEUDOTUMOR; PYELONEPHRITIS; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; Q FEVER; RAT BITE FEVER; RETICULOSARCOMA; RETROPERITONEAL ABSCESS; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; ROSAI DORFMAN DISEASE; SALMONELLOSIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SARCOMA; SCREENING TEST; SEIZURE; SEROLOGY; SERUM SICKNESS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SINUSITIS; SPIROCHETE INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; SYPHILIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROAT CULTURE; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; THYROIDITIS; THYROTOXICOSIS; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TOOTH ABSCESS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRACHEOBRONCHITIS; TRICHINOSIS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED PERIODIC SYNDROME; TYPHUS; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VIRUS INFECTION; VISCERAL LARVA MIGRANS SYNDROME; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; WEBER CHRISTIAN PANNICULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; YERSINIOSIS;

CHILD; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; INFECTION; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77749252835     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922809347799     Document Type: Note

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