Acute appendicitis in a 14-year-old boy with familial Mediterranean fever
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is one manifestation of a heritable periodic fever syndrome that is characterized by recurrent attacks of febrile polyserositis, most frequently peritonitis. An FMF abdominal attack is often misdiagnosed as acute appendicitis, a more common cause of an acute abdome...
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Elsevier,
2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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