Clubbed fingers in a patient with inflammatory gingival hyperplasia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1307-1311

  Asai, Satomi ^a   Asada, Koichi ^b   Miyachi, Hayato ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TSURUMI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti DNA antibody; Clubbed finger; Gingivitis

Indexed keywords

DNA ANTIBODY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUBBING FINGERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GINGIVA HYPERPLASIA; GINGIVAL BIOPSY; GINGIVITIS; HARD PALATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MOUTH CAVITY; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GINGIVA; GINGIVAL HYPERPLASIA; GINGIVITIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHROPATHY, SECONDARY HYPERTROPHIC; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

EID: 31444449187     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.1307     Document Type: Article

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