A Case Report of Fever of Unknown Origin (FUO) - Journal of Cancer Therapy

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A Case Report of Fever of Unknown Origin (FUO) ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jct.2013.47131 5,119 Downloads 7,100 Views

Author(s)

Shuang Huang, Yonghong Zhang

Affiliation(s)

Hematology Department, Beijing Children’s Hospital, Beijing, China.

ABSTRACT

A 10-year-old boy had a long time of fever, and was diagnosed as JRA at first, but the patient’s condition got worse and worse after the treatment, then we did the cervical lymph node biopsy, which showed ALCL (Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma). After receiving the correct treatment, the patient’s condition got better.

KEYWORDS

FUO; ALCL; Misdiagnose

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S. Huang and Y. Zhang, "A Case Report of Fever of Unknown Origin (FUO)," Journal of Cancer Therapy, Vol. 4 No. 7, 2013, pp. 1145-1147. doi: 10.4236/jct.2013.47131.

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