Adult-onset still's disease: Still a diagnosis of exclusion. A nested case-control study in patients with fever of unknown origin

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 514-519

  Vanderschueren, Steven ^a   Hermans, Frederik ^a   De Munter, Paul ^a   Knockaert, Daniël ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adult onset Still's disease; Diagnosis; Fever of unknown origin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; NEUTROPHILIA; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RASH; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SORE THROAT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ALGORITHMS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION TREES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FERRITINS; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867349550     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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