Development of an assessment tool for dactylitis in patients with psoriatic arthritis

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1745-1750

  Helliwell, Philip S ^a   Firth, Jill ^b   Ibrahim, Gamal H ^b   Melsom, Richard D ^b   Shah, Irfan ^b   Turner, Deborah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b St Luke's Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dactylitis; Psoriatic arthritis; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DACTYLITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; RELIABILITY;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEUMATOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOES;

EID: 24944581581     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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