Circulating endothelial cells in relapse and limited granulomatous disease due to ANCA associated vasculitis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 164-168

  Woywodt, A ^a   Goldberg, C ^a   Kirsch, T ^a   De Groot, K ^a   Erdbruegger, U ^a   Haller, H ^a   Haubitz, M ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CD146 ANTIGEN; LECTIN; ULEX EUROPAEUS LECTIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION COMPLICATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REMISSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; CELL COUNT; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 31144465302     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2005.040980     Document Type: Article

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