Adult Still's disease - A review of the literature with reference to two clinical case reports
Keywords:
adult Still's disease, fever of unknown origin, evanescent rashAbstract
Adult Still's disease is a systemic illness of unknown aetiology. The clinical features are high fever, arthralgias and an evanescent rask. Since there are nocllnical, laboratorial or histological, patlhgnomomic markers, the diagnosis of Adull, Still's disease is made by exclusion.
The authors describe two clinical cases, diagnosed using the Reginato and Medsenger criteria, in two young people, one a man of 18years and the other a woman of 28 years, both admitted for prolonged fever. A review of the literature is made, highlighting an uncommon disease with a worlwide reported number of cases in the order of several hundred.
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