Magnetic resonance imaging in the differential diagnosis between polymyalgia rheumatica and elderly onset rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 402-403

  Parodi, Massimiliano ^a   Garlaschi, Giacomo ^a   Silvestri, Enzo ^a   Cimmino, Marco A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Università di Genova ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Elderly onset rheumatoid arthritis; MRI; Polymyalgia rheumatica

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IBUPROFEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATIGUE; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALAISE; MALE; MORNING STIFFNESS; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOMA; PROSTATECTOMY; RELAPSE; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; WRIST RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33645763226     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-005-0010-7     Document Type: Article

References (3)

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