Predictive parameters for a diagnostic bone marrow biopsy specimen in the work-up of fever of unknown origin

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 136-142

  Ben Baruch, Sharon ^a   Canaani, Jonathan ^a   Braunstein, Rony ^a   Perry, Chava ^a   Ben Ezra, Jonathan ^a   Polliack, Aaron ^a,b   Naparstek, Elizabeth ^a,c   Herishanu, Yair ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ANEMIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; GRANULOMATOSIS; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTOMA; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METASTASIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MOUTH INFECTION; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; MYELOID METAPLASIA; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; NOCARDIOSIS; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PERIPHERAL T CELL LYMPHOMA; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PREDICTION; PROSTATE CANCER; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; Q FEVER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; SEX; SINUSITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SOLID TUMOR; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84856638156     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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