Joint and bone involvement in Dutch patients with Lyme borreliosis presenting with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-9

  Houtman, P M ^a   Tazelaar, D J ^a  

^a De Tjongerschans Hospital   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acrodermatitis chronica; Atrophicans; Broad foot; Lyme borreliosis

Indexed keywords

ACRODERMATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIOSTITIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SUBLUXATION; TOE JOINT;

ACRODERMATITIS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTHROGRAPHY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIOSTITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOE JOINT;

EID: 0032927666     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-2977(98)00093-X     Document Type: Article

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