Polymyalgia rheumatica as the manifestation of unclassified aortitis

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 105-108

  Kataoka, Hiroshi ^a   Atsumi, Tatsuya ^a   Hashimoto, Toko ^a   Horita, Tetsuya ^a   Yasuda, Shinsuke ^a   Koike, Takao ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortitis; Giant cell arteritis; Polymyalgia rheumatica; Takayasu arteritis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTITIS; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MORNING STIFFNESS; MYALGIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; SHOULDER PAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AORTITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TAKAYASU ARTERITIS;

EID: 39149111595     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-007-0019-7     Document Type: Article

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