Presenting features of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and rheumatoid arthritis with PMR-like onset: A prospective study

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1021-1024

  Caporali, R ^a   Montecucco, C ^a   Epis, O ^a   Bobbio Pallavicini, F ^a   Maio, T ^b   Cimmino, M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

AGED; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSFERASES;

EID: 0034781260     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.60.11.1021     Document Type: Article

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