Association of intermittent hydrarthrosis with MEFV gene mutations

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2334-2335

  Cañete, Juan D ^a   Aróstegui, Juan I ^a   Queiró, Rubén ^b   Sanmartí, Raimon ^a   Ballina, Javier ^b   Bosch, Xavier ^a   Yagüe, Jordi ^a  

^a INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; GOLD SALT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; JOINT EFFUSION; JOINT SWELLING; KNEE; MEFV GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SYNOVECTOMY;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; COLCHICINE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; HYDRARTHROSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PERIODICITY;

EID: 33745920785     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.21923     Document Type: Article

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