Published 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Adult onset Still's disease: Role of scintigraphy

  • 1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Smt Kashi Bai Navale Medical College and General Hospital, Narhe, Pune, Maharashtra (India)
  • 2. Department of Internal Medicine, Smt Kashi Bai Navale Medical College and General Hospital, Narhe, Pune, Maharashtra (India)

Description

Adult onset Still's disease (AOSD) often poses a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge and clinical guidelines are lacking. It is often diagnosed after a considerable delay; bone scintigraphy imaging may offer new imaging techniques for early diagnosis and successful therapy in follow-up examinations. We describe the liver and bone scan findings in a 21-year old female patient with AOSD, who had been having fever of high grade, recurrent and intermittent in character, associated with severe sore throat and joint pains. She had been extensively investigated for possible infectious disease. She had received antibiotics and antimalarial drugs without any response

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.108869; Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3628264

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Journal Volume
27
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 48-49
ISSN
0972-3919

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PMCID: PMC3628264; PMID: 23599601; PUBLISHER-ID: IJNM-27-48; OAI: oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3628264; Copyright: (c) Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine; This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.