Open AccessAdult onset Still′s disease: Role of scintigraphy
Author(s) -
Sujit Nilegaonkar,
Rajesh Karekar,
Dipti Hirawe,
Shailesh Lagade
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 0972-3919
pISSN - 0974-0244
DOI - 10.4103/0972-3919.108869
Subject(s) - medicine , adult onset still's disease , sore throat , bone scintigraphy , disease , scintigraphy , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , radiology , surgery
Adult onset Still's disease (AOSD) often poses a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge and clinical guidelines are lacking. It is often diagnosed after a considerable delay; bone scintigraphy imaging may offer new imaging techniques for early diagnosis and successful therapy in follow-up examinations. We describe the liver and bone scan findings in a 21-year old female patient with AOSD, who had been having fever of high grade, recurrent and intermittent in character, associated with severe sore throat and joint pains. She had been extensively investigated for possible infectious disease. She had received antibiotics and antimalarial drugs without any response.