Diagnostic strategy for the assessment of rheumatoid vasculitis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 407-413

  Voskuyl, A E ^a,b   Hazes, J M W ^b,d   Zwinderman, A H ^b   Paleolog, E M ^c   Van Der Meer, F J M ^b   Daha, M R ^b   Breedveld, F C ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIBODY; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; ENDOTHELIUM ANTIBODY; FIBRONECTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 3; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPISCLERITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GANGRENE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONONEUROPATHY MULTIPLEX; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NAIL DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERICARDITIS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PETECHIA; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PURPURA; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID NODULE; SCLEROMALACIA; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SKIN ULCER; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BLOOD; EYE DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN DISEASE; VASCULITIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COHORT STUDIES; COMPLEMENT C3; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SKIN DISEASES; VASCULITIS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0037404906     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.62.5.407     Document Type: Article

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