Capillaroscopy

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1093-1108

  Cutolo, Maurizio ^a   Pizzorni, Carmen ^a   Secchi, Maria Elena ^a   Sulli, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

connective tissue diseases; scleroderma pattern; systemic sclerosis; videocapillaroscopy

Indexed keywords

ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; BLEEDING; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

CAPILLARIES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPIC ANGIOSCOPY; NAILS; RAYNAUD DISEASE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 56649109771     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2008.09.001     Document Type: Review

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