Prevalence of a Normal C-Reactive Protein with an Elevated Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate in Biopsy-Proven Giant Cell Arteritis

Ophthalmology

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1842-1845

  Parikh, Mona ^a   Miller, Neil R ^a   Lee, Andrew G ^b   Savino, Peter J ^c   Vacarezza, M Noel ^c   Cornblath, Wayne ^d   Eggenberger, Eric ^e   Antonio Santos, Aileen ^e   Golnik, Karl ^f   Kardon, Randy ^b   Wall, Michael ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e East Lansing   (United States)

^f CINCINNATI EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GENDER; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ARTERY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC NEUROPATHY, ISCHEMIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL ARTERIES; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS;

EID: 33748975880     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.05.020     Document Type: Article

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