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Periodic Fever, Aphthosis, Pharyngitis, and Adenitis Syndrome: Analysis of Patients From Two Geographic Areas.
Arthritis care & research - 1 Dec 2016
Batu Ezgi D, Kara Eroğlu Fehime, Tsoukas Paul, Hausmann Jonathan S, Bilginer Yelda, Kenna Margaret A, Licameli Greg R, Fuhlbrigge Robert C, Özen Seza, Dedeoğlu Fatma
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Periodic fever, aphthosis, pharyngitis, and adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome is a periodic fever syndrome of childhood with an unknown etiology. Our aim was to compare the features between PFAPA syndrome patients from Turkey and those from the US, and patients with and without MEFV variants, and to test the performance of the Eurofever criteria in excluding other autoinflammatory disorders. METHODS:...
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