Clinical hand osteoarthritis in Tehran: Prevalence, signs, symptoms, and pattern - COPCORD stage I, Iran study

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1467-1469

  Jamshidi, Ahmad Reza ^a   Tehrani Banihashemi, Arash ^a   Dahaghin, Saeeideh ^a,b   Gholami, Jaleh ^a   Froozanfar, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Akhlaghi, Massoomeh ^a   Khabbazi, Ali Reza ^a   Barghamdi, Mojgan ^a   Norollahzadeh, Elham ^a   Arabzadeh, Bozorgmehr ^a   Davatchi, Fereydoun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARPOMETACARPAL JOINT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOGRAPHY; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCREENING TEST; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WRIST;

AGED; FEMALE; HAND JOINTS; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 47349108847     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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