Cholesterol crescents and plates in shoulder effusion of a rheumatoid patient [4]

Rheumatology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 377-378

  Ho, Sook ^a   Srinivasan, U ^a   Bevan, M ^a  

^a PRINCESS OF WALES HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; ETANERCEPT; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; SIMVASTATIN; STEROID;

ASPIRATION; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTEROL EMBOLISM; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JOINT EFFUSION; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LETTER; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SHOULDER;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CHOLESTEROL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG RESISTANCE; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOULDER JOINT; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39449137140     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kem361     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

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