Article
[Genetic diagnosis of periodic disease].
La Revue de medecine interne - 1 Jul 1998
Touitou I
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INTRODUCTION: Periodic disease is a hereditary disorder. Until recently its diagnosis was essentially based on clinical criteria. When the clinical picture was incomplete or atypical, it often required elimination of other diagnoses which sometimes involved extensive and useless investigations. Diagnosis was consequently delayed or irrelevant, with the risk of renal failure when the patient was not treated (or...
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