Diagnostic workup for fever of unknown origin: A multicenter collaborative retrospective study

BMJ Open

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Naito, Toshio ^a   Mizooka, Masafumi ^b   Mitsumoto, Fujiko ^c   Kanazawa, Kenji ^d   Torikai, Keito ^e   Ohno, Shiro ^f   Morita, Hiroyuki ^g   Ukimura, Akira ^h   Mishima, Nobuhiko ⁱ   Otsuka, Fumio ^j   Ohyama, Yoshio ^k   Nara, Noriko ^l   Murakami, Kazunari ^m   Mashiba, Kouichi ⁿ   Akazawa, Kenichiro ^o   Yamamoto, Koji ^p   Senda, Shoichi ^q   Yamanouchi, Masashi ^a   Tazuma, Susumu ^b   Hayashi, Jun ^c  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

ⁱ Kainan Hospital   (Japan)

^j OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^l YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^m OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁿ KITAKYUSHU MUNICIPAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^o Shonan Fujisawa Tokushukai Hospital   (Japan)

^p SUMITOMO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^q KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROCALCITONIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ANGIOFOLLICULAR LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; ARTICLE; AXILLA TEMPERATURE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE DURATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG FEVER; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SARCOIDOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892577201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003971     Document Type: Article

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