Clinical presentation and vascular imaging in giant cell arteritis of the femoropopliteal and tibioperoneal arteries. Analysis of four cases

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 176-182

  Tatò, Federico ^a   Hoffmann, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; PREDNISONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E1;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AXILLARY ARTERY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; DEEP FEMORAL ARTERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG INDICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMOROPOPLITEAL ARTERY; FOLLOW UP; FOOT PAIN; FOOT ULCER; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HALLUX; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; LEG ARTERY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY; SYMPTOM; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TIBIAL ARTERY; TIBIOPERONEAL ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULITIS; WALKING;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TIBIAL ARTERIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 33745676114     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2006.02.054     Document Type: Article

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