A case of undifferentiated connective tissue disease: Is it a distinct clinical entity?

Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 328-332

  Mosca, Marta ^a   Tani, Chiara ^a   Bombardieri, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; CENTROMERE ANTIBODY; CORTICOSTEROID; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ANTIBODY; LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN ANTIBODY; SCL 70 ANTIBODY; THROMBOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; COOMBS TEST; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEG; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SKIN BRUISING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNDIFFERENTIATED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; AZATHIOPRINE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RAYNAUD DISEASE; REMISSION INDUCTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 44849132797     PISSN: 17458382     EISSN: 17458390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncprheum0799     Document Type: Article

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