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Mymensingh medical journal : MMJ, vol.21, no.3, pp.570-572, 2012 (Scopus)
Adult-onset Still's disease is a rare inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology and has same clinical characteristics of the systemic form of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. A 17 years old white female had arthralgias of multiple joints including small joints of hands. She had fever, rash, hepatosplenomegaly, and CRP-122mg/dl, ESR-91mm in 1st hour. She had also TSH - 6.24μIU/mL, fT3 - 2.1pg/mL, fT4 - 1.36ng/dL and diagnosed as Adult-onset Still's disease with autoimmune thyroiditis. It is an inherited condition and is more common in women than in men.