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Erythropoietin-producing tubercle granuloma in a hemodialysis patient

BACKGROUND: We describe a case of a fever of unknown etiology that was caused by a caseating tubercle granuloma which produced erythropoietin. To our knowledge, this is the first report of an erythropoietin- producing granuloma. CASE PRESENTATION: A 48-year-old Japanese man with a 5-year history of...

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Autores principales: Satoh, Minoru, Ueta, Hiroshi, Tokura, Takehiko, Sasaki, Tamaki, Kashihara, Naoki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3646680/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23601138
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-14-91