Extreme Periodic Fever, Aphthous Stomatitis, Pharyngitis, Adenitis (PFAPA): a discrete group of patients

• Main Authors: Mor Broide (Author), Yoel Levinsky (Author), Rotem Tal (Author), Liora Harel (Author), Shoval Shoham (Author), Sabreen Abu Ahmad (Author), Yonatan Butbul Aviel (Author), Gil Amarilyo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Objective Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and cervical adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome is the most common periodic fever syndrome in children; by definition, episodes occur every 2 to 8 weeks. However, in a subset of our patients, we noticed a higher frequency of attacks, of les...