Evaluation of serum ferritin level in patients with fever of unknown origin

• Main Authors: Raed Hamed Mansour (Author), Shaban Salah Abd El-moneum (Author), Tarek Aly Hassan (Author), Ahmed Abdelalim Abuo Elhassan (Author), Mohamed Hasan Elnadry (Author), Wlid Mohamed Elbakrawy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background Diagnosis of the cause of fever of unknown origin (FUO) is a great challenge. Serum ferritin may be a useful index for differentiating between infectious and noninfectious causes of FUO (malignant disease or collagen disease). In this respect, serum ferritin has the advantage of decreasin...