Sympathetic skin response in scleroderma, scleroderma overlap syndromes and inflammatory myopathies

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 473-480

  Zakrzewska Pniewska, B ^a   Jabllonska S ^a   Kowalska Oledzka E ^b   Blaszczyk M ^a   Hausmanowa Petrusewicz, I ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Connective tissue diseases; Sympathetic skin response

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MYALGIA; MYOSITIS; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SCHOOL CHILD; SCLERODERMA; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOSITIS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0342514754     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100670050141     Document Type: Article

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