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Periodic Fever with Skin Rash and Arthritis

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A boy had recurrent attacks of periodic fever, abdominal, joint and muscle pain, periorbital oedema and painful migratory maculopapular rash. His presentation suggested an extremely rare autosomal dominant autoinflammatory disease.

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El-Darouti, M.A., Al-Ali, F.M. (2019). Periodic Fever with Skin Rash and Arthritis. In: Challenging Cases in Dermatology Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21855-3_17

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