Ultrasound of proximal upper extremity arteries to increase the diagnostic yield in large-vessel giant cell arteritis

Rheumatology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 96-101

  Schmidt, W A ^a   Seifert, A ^a   Gromnica ihle, E ^a   Krause, A ^a   Natusch, A ^a  

^a Medical Center for Rheumatology Berlin Buch   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiography; Colour Doppler ultrasonography; Giant cell arteritis; Large vessel giant cell arteritis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Temporal arteritis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; AXILLARY ARTERY; B SCAN; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GERMANY; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; JAW DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TEMPORAL ARTERY; TIME;

AGED; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ARTERIES; AXILLARY ARTERY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMANS; MALE; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TEMPORAL ARTERIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 37349001799     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kem322     Document Type: Article

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