Epidemiology of systemic sclerosis in northwest Greece 1981 to 2002

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 714-720

  Alamanos, Yannis ^a   Tsifetaki, Niki ^a   Voulgari, Paraskevi V ^a   Siozos, Christos ^b   Tsamandouraki, Kiriaki ^a   Alexiou, George A ^a   Drosos, Alexandros A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Incidence; Mortality; Prevalence; Survival; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

EID: 17044384502     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2004.09.001     Document Type: Article

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