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Fever of Unknown Origin
The Evolving Definition
Arch Intern Med. 2003;163:1003-1004.
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And many other forms of fevers were then epidemic, of tertian, of quartan, of nocturnal, of continual, of chronic, of erratic, of fevers attended with nausea, and of irregular fevers.—Hippocrates, Epidemics, Book 3(12)
Fever in its varied forms is still with us . . . but it is of equal importance to know that the way has been opened, and that the united efforts of many workers in many lands are day by day disarming this great enemy of the race.—William Osler, 18961
ONCE UPON a time, all fevers were of unknown etiology. By the mid-20th century, most had been unmasked by science, but a few continued to present thorny dilemmas, prompting Keefer and Leard2 to write a book entitled Prolonged and Perplexing Fevers. In 196 1, Petersdorf and Beeson3 published their now classic criteria for fever of unknown origin (FUO): (1) an illness of at least 3 . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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