A prospective study of vasculitis patients collected in a five year period: Evaluation of the Chapel Hill nomenclature

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 478-482

  Sørensen, Søren Freiesleben ^a   Slot, Ole ^b   Tvede, Niels ^b   Petersen, Jørgen ^c  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTERITIS; ARTICLE; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; LUNG GRANULOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTOIDITIS; OTITIS; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEINURIA; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAKAYASU'S ARTERITIS; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; VASCULITIS; VASCULITIS, HYPERSENSITIVITY; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 0004900536     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.59.6.478     Document Type: Article

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