Ocular involvements of Japanese patients with giant cell arteritis from the first nation-wide survey [2]

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 867-868

  Kobayashi, Shigeto ^a   Yano, Tetsuro ^a   Inaba, Yutaka ^a   Hashimoto, Hiroshi ^a   Matsumoto, Yoshifuji ^b   Tamakoshi, Akiko ^c   Kawamura, Takashi ^c   Ohno, Yoshiyuki ^c  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Toyokawa City Hospital   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 0346220227     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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