Malignant causes of fever of unknown origin
- 1 June 2015
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Clinical Medicine
- Vol. 15 (3), 292-294
- https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-3-292
Abstract
The presence of fever in malignancy usually indicates infection, though transfusion, thrombosis and drugs are also culprits. However, particularly in some tumour types, fever can also be a paraneoplastic syndrome, caused by the malignancy itself. This can be a difficult diagnosis to establish and presents a therapeutic challenge to the physician when the underlying malignancy is not easily treated.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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