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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on May 12, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48(7):859-860; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep092
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

A rare case of angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma presenting with fever and late polyarthritis

George Notas1, Irene Xylouri2, Heraklis Kritikos3, Emilia Stavroulaki2, George Roditakis1 and Dimitrios Boumpas1,3

1Department of Internal Medicine, 2Department of Hematology and 3Department of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Correspondence to: George Notas, Laboratory of Experimental Endocrinology, University of Crete Medical School, Voutes 2209, 71500 Heraklion, Crete, Greece. E-mail: gnotas@med.uoc.gr

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SIR, A 71-year-old Caucasian male presented to our department with a 4-month history of generalized myalgias, arthralgias of the knees and small joints of the hands and high-grade fever. Three months prior to admission, the patient received a 2-week course of antibiotics for cervical lymphadenopathy. One month later he developed polyarthritis and low-grade afternoon fever (maximum 38.5°C) and received an intramuscular depot form of corticosteroids and oral MTX for possible RA with marked improvement.

Clinical examination on admission revealed an overweight patient and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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