An international delphi survey for the definition of the variables for the development of new classification criteria for periodic fever aphtous stomatitis pharingitis cervical adenitis (PFAPA)

• Main Authors: Federica Vanoni (Author), Silvia Federici (Author), Jordi Antón (Author), Karyl S. Barron (Author), Paul Brogan (Author), Fabrizio De Benedetti (Author), Fatma Dedeoglu (Author), Erkan Demirkaya (Author), Veronique Hentgen (Author), Tilmann Kallinich (Author), Ronald Laxer (Author), Ricardo Russo (Author), Natasa Toplak (Author), Yosef Uziel (Author), Alberto Martini (Author), Nicolino Ruperto (Author), Marco Gattorno (Author), Michael Hofer (Author), for Eurofever and the Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO) (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Diagnosis of Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and cervical adenitis (PFAPA) is currently based on a set of criteria proposed in 1999 modified from Marshall's criteria. Nevertheless no validated evidence based set of classification criteria for PFAPA has been...