Remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema (RS3PE) syndrome in Nagano, Japan: Clinical, radiological, and cytokine studies of 13 patients

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-98

  Oide, T ^a,b,c   Ohara, S ^b   Oguchi, K ^a,b   Maruyama, M ^b   Yazawa, M ^c   Inoue, K ^c   Sekijima, Y ^a   Tokuda, T ^a   Ikeda, Shu Ichi ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Matsumoto Hospital   (Japan)

^c Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gallium scintigram; Interleukin 6; Magnetic resonance imaging; Polymyalgia rheumatica; RS3PE

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GALLIUM CITRATE GA 67; INTERLEUKIN 6; RADIOISOTOPE;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; EDEMA; EUROPE; FEMALE; FEVER; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALAISE; MALE; MYALGIA; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; REMISSION; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNOVIAL FLUID LEVEL; SYNOVITIS; TENOSYNOVITIS; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EDEMA; FEMALE; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HAND; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA; PREDNISOLONE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SYNDROME; SYNOVITIS; TENOSYNOVITIS;

EID: 1242308854     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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