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A Case Report of Familial Mediterranean Fever Diagnosed Following the Total Knee Arthroplasty

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to express their great appreciation to Dr. Scott A. Rodeo at Hospital for Special Surgery for the manuscript preparation.

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Sumito Kawamura, MD, PhD, Kazunaga Agematsu, MD, Daisuke Kawamura, MD, Goroh Kawamura, MD, Koji Suzuki, MD, and Michio Minami, MD have declared that they have no conflict of interest.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rheumatology, Kobayashi Hospital, Kita 3 Nishi 4, Kitami, Hokkaido, 090-8567, Japan

    Sumito Kawamura MD, PhD

  2. Department of Infection and Host Defense, Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

    Kazunaga Agematsu MD

  3. Kawamura Orthopaedics, Furano, Hokkaido, Japan

    Daisuke Kawamura MD & Goroh Kawamura MD

  4. Department of Rheumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery, Hokkaido Orthopaedic Memorial Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

    Koji Suzuki MD & Michio Minami MD

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Kawamura, S., Agematsu, K., Kawamura, D. et al. A Case Report of Familial Mediterranean Fever Diagnosed Following the Total Knee Arthroplasty. HSS Jrnl 11, 278–280 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11420-015-9444-x

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