A Very Rare Cause of Pleuritic Chest Pain: Bilateral Pleuritis as a First Sign of Familial Mediterranean Fever
The familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), also called recurrent polyserositis, is characterized by reccurrent episodes of serositis at pleura, peritoneum, and synovial membrane and fever. We present a patient with recurrent bilateral pleural effusion due to serositis attacks as a first sign of FMF. A...
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Main Authors: | Sevket Ozkaya, Saliha E. Butun, Serhat Findik, Atilla Atici, Adem Dirican |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2013-01-01
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Series: | Case Reports in Pulmonology |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/315751 |
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