Meta-analysis: Test performance of ultrasonography for giant-cell arteritis

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 359-369

  Karassa, Fotini B ^b   Matsagas, Miltiadis I ^b   Schmidt, Wolfgang A ^b   Ioannidis, John P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; CELL HETEROGENEITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECHOGRAPHY; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; OCCLUSION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STENOSIS; TEMPORAL ARTERY;

EID: 14344266290     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-142-5-200503010-00011     Document Type: Review

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