Fever of unknown origin or fever of too many origins?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 368, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 197-199

  Horowitz, Harold W ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN;

BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SHORT SURVEY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS;

EID: 84872484569     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1212725     Document Type: Article

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