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Case Report

Familial Mediterranean fever with P369S/R408Q exon3 variant in pyrin presenting as symptoms of PFAPA

Keiko YamagamiDepartment of Internal Medicine, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan,
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Tomoyuki NakamuraDepartment of Internal Medicine, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan,
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Ryota NakamuraDepartment of Internal Medicine, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan,
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Yusuke HaniokaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan,
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Kaori SekiDepartment of Internal Medicine, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan,
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Hiroshi ChibaDepartment of General Medicine, Hachinohe City Hospital, Hachinohe, Japan, and
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Keiko KobayashiDepartment of Infection and Host Defense, Graduate School of Medicine, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan
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Kazunaga AgematsuDepartment of Infection and Host Defense, Graduate School of Medicine, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 356-359 | Received 01 Aug 2014, Accepted 04 Sep 2014, Published online: 02 Mar 2017

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