Published 2012
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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/PMC3628264Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine
- Journal Volume
- 27
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 48-49
- ISSN
- 0972-3919
INIS
- Country of Publication
- India
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 46050023
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
- Descriptors DEI
- ADULTS; ANTIBIOTICS; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALES; FEVER; INFECTIOUS DISEASES; LIVER; PAIN; PATIENTS; PHARYNX; RECOMMENDATIONS; SCINTISCANNING; SKELETON; THERAPY
- Descriptors DEC
- AGE GROUPS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BODY; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISEASES; DRUGS; GLANDS; MEDICINE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANS; RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SYMPTOMS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 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.