Physical burden of symptoms in patients with localized scleroderma and eosinophilic fasciitis

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1394-1395

  Kroft, Elisabeth B M ^a   De Jong, Elke M G J ^b   Evers, Andrea W M ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DERMATOLOGY LIFE QUALITY INDEX; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EOSINOPHILIC FASCIITIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPACT OF CHRONIC SKIN DISEASE ON DAILY LIFE INSTRUMENT; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHEA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCLERODERMA; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; EOSINOPHILIA; FASCIITIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCLERODERMA, LOCALIZED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 54349091077     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.144.10.1394     Document Type: Letter

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