Increased 67gallium uptake among polymyalgia rheumatica patients. Is it additional evidence of its vasculitic nature?

Rheumatology International

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1010-1013

  Reitblat, T ^a   Ben Horin, C L ^a   Reitblat, A ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM 67; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GALLIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SKULL; VASCULITIS; MIDDLE AGED; SCINTISCANNING; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TEMPORAL BONE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TEMPORAL BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33748712050     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-006-0124-5     Document Type: Article

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