Tuberculosis or systemic lupus erythematosus? A diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma.

Authors
Category Primary study
JournalThe Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health
Year 2003
The diagnosis of patients with fever of unknown origin (FUO) is often problematic because the range of possible differential diagnoses is broad. We report on a case in which a patient presented with FUO and was subsequently found to have both a collagen vascular disease and an intercurrent infection. Treatment for the collagen vascular disease with corticosteroids exacerbated the intercurrent infection. The problems in the diagnosis and management of such cases are discussed.
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