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Do we need the PFAPA syndrome in adults with non-monogenic periodic fevers?
Antoine Fayand1,2,3, Veronique Hentgen3,4, Stephanie Ducharme-Bénard5,6
1Service de médecine interne, Hôpital Tenon, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France afayand@gmail.com.
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
|January 2, 2020
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