Giant-cell arteritis of the female genital tract associated with occult temporal arteritis and FDG-PET evidence of large-vessel vasculitis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 1 SUPPL. 44, 2007, Pages

  Bajocchi, Gianluigi ^a   Zamorani, Giovanna ^a   Cavazza, Alberto ^a   Pipitone, Nicolò ^a   Versari, Annibale ^a   Boiardi, Luigi ^a   Salvarani, Carlo ^a  

^a Unita Operativa di Reumatologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Female genital tract; Giant cell arteritis; Positron emission tomography; Temporal artery biopsy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; HEMOGLOBIN; PREDNISONE;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MONONUCLEAR CELL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; THORACIC AORTA; UTERUS PROLAPSE;

AORTA, THORACIC; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDNISONE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 34247516436     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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