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Table 1 Summary of the differential diagnosis of urticaria, arthritis and fever from the literature

From: Acute adult-onset still’s disease presenting as pulmonary hemorrhage, urticaria, angioedema and leukemoid reaction: a case report and literature review

Classes of diseases

Diseases

Hereditary auto-inflammatory syndromes

Familial cold urticaria

 

Cryopyrin-associated syndrome

 

Muckle–Wells syndrome

 

Familial cold urticaria

 

Chronic infantile neurologic cutaneous and

 

articular syndrome (CINCA/NOMID)

Infectious diseases

Hepatitis B, C

 

Chronic meningococcemia

 

STAR complex (Sore Throat, Arthritis and Rash secondary to a viral infection)

 

Streptococcal pharyngitis with reactive arthralgia and exanthem

Autoimmune disorders

AOSD

 

Systemic lupus erythematosus

 

Acquired C1 esterase deficiency

 

Schnitzler syndrome

Hematological disorders

Lymphoma

 

Monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance

 

Multiple myeloma

 

Polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin changes (POEMS) syndromeº

 

Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia

Other

Hypocomplementic urticarial vasculitis

 

Idiopathic chronic urticaria

 

Delayed pressure urticaria

 

Cryoglobulinemia

 

Behçet’s disease

 

Mastocytosis

  1. Modificated and update from: (Affleck and Littlewood 2005; Koning et al. 2007; Kyle and Rajkumar 2003; Csepregi and Nemesánszky 2000; Davis and Brewer 2004; Hawkins et al. 2004; Tomkova et al. 1998; Zuberbier et al. 2009; Deacock 2008).