Delay in the Diagnosis of SLE: The Importance of Arthritis/Arthralgia as the Initial Symptom

Acta Medica Okayama

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 187-190

  Ozbek, Suleyman ^a   Sert, Murat ^a   Paydas, Saime ^a   Soy, Mehmet ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Butterfly rash; Delay in SLE diagnosis; SLE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY RASH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PERICARDITIS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDER; PLEURISY; RASH; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0242657451     PISSN: 0386300X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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