Clinical utility of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate

American Family Physician

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1443-1450

  Brigden, Malcolm L ^a  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HODGKIN DISEASE; INFECTION; METASTASIS; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCREENING TEST; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ARTERITIS; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA;

EID: 0032703665     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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