Doppler ultrasound identifies increased resistive indices in SSc

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-110

  Bregenzer, N ^a   Distler, O ^b   Meyringer, R ^a   Scholmerich J ^a   Muller Ladner U ^a   Lock, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL COMPLIANCE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL ARTERY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL DISORDER; SKIN DEFECT; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULARIZATION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0346690019     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2003.009118     Document Type: Article

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