Familial Mediterranean fever and prolonged febrile myalgia syndrome: Case report
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Case report

Familial Mediterranean fever and prolonged febrile myalgia syndrome: Case report

J Behcet Uz Child Hosp 2017;7(2):164-166 DOI: 10.5222/buchd.2017.164
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Abstract

Abdominal pain is a common complain in children which is caused by surgical and non-surgical reasons. Familial meditterian fever is one of the common non-surgical reasons and the most common syptoms are fever and inflammatory serositis. But one of the rare form is protractal febrile myalgia defined fist time in 1944. This form coexistent with fever, myalgia, abdominal pain, athritis and athralgia. In this article, we presented a case with fever and abdominal pain, followed by muscular pain diagnosed as a prolonged febrile myalgia syndrome and Familial Mediterranean Fever. It is emphasized that the prolonged febrile myalgia syndrome is one of the atypical clinical manifestations in the Familial Mediterranean Fever and may be seen in the first application.

Keywords: Familial Mediterranean fever, abdominal pain, prolonged febrile myalgia