Utility and future direction of echography in the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis;Utilidad y futuro de la ecografía en el diagnóstico de la arteritis de células gigantes

Reumatologia Clinica

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-2

  De Miguel, Eugenio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; BUERGER DISEASE; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; MALIGNANT HISTIOCYTOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL ARTERY; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 67649600793     PISSN: 1699258X     EISSN: 18851398     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1699-258X(09)70196-2     Document Type: Editorial

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