Correlation between synovial blood flow signals and serum vascular endothelial growth factor levels in patients with refractory rheumatoid arthritis

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 187-191

  Kurosaka, Daitaro ^a   Hirai, Kenichiro ^a   Nishioka, Makiko ^a   Miyamoto, Yukio ^a   Yoshida, Ken ^a   Takahashi, Eigo ^a   Ukichi, Taro ^a   Noda, Kentaro ^a   Yanagimachi, Maimi ^a   Furuya, Kazuhiro ^a   Fukuda, Kunihiko ^a   Yamada, Akio ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Doppler ultrasound; Rheumatoid arthritis (RA); Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ETANERCEPT; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE PAIN; MALE; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SYNOVIUM; WRIST; WRIST DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CELL MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 64449085765     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-008-0146-9     Document Type: Article

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