Feasibility of Different Capillaroscopic Measures for Identifying Nailfold Microvascular Alterations

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 289-295

  Ingegnoli, Francesca ^a   Gualtierotti, Roberta ^a   Lubatti, Chiara ^a   Zahalkova, Lenka ^a   Meani, Laura ^a   Boracchi, Patrizia ^a   Zeni, Silvana ^a   Fantini, Flavio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

connective tissue diseases; Raynaud's phenomenon; videocapillaroscopy

Indexed keywords

ACROCYANOSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CAPILLARY; CHILD; DERMATOMYOSITIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; POLYMYOSITIS; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; REPRODUCIBILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANGIOSCOPY; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGNOSIS; RAYNAUD DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 58549088194     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2007.10.008     Document Type: Article

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