Chronic periaortitis: a fibro-inflammatory disorder

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 339-353

  Palmisano, Alessandra ^a   Vaglio, Augusto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

aortitis; chronic periaortitis; corticosteroids; inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysms; retroperitoneal fibrosis; vasculitis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM 67; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHOTREXATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TAMOXIFEN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; AORTITIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHRONIC PERIAORTITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULITIS;

AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC DISEASES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS;

EID: 66349121492     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2008.12.002     Document Type: Review

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