Commentary - Ordering lab tests for suspected rheumatic disease

Pediatric Rheumatology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Jarvis, James N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FC FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTHRALGIA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC ARTHRITIS; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL CARE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; URINALYSIS;

EID: 57149127099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15460096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1546-0096-6-19     Document Type: Short Survey

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