What is that nodule?: A diagnostic approach to evaluating subcutaneous and cutaneous nodules

Journal of Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 230-240

  Evangelisto, Amy ^a   Werth, Victoria ^a   Schumacher, H Ralph ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SKIN NODULE; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; METABOLIC DISEASES; PANNICULITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; RHEUMATIC NODULE; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33749508333     PISSN: 10761608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rhu.0000240034.72958.2f     Document Type: Review

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