The use of doppler ultrasound to evaluate lesions of localized scleroderma

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 205-211

  Li, Suzanne C ^a   Liebling, Melissa S ^b  

^a HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; PSORALEN;

DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LINEAR SCLERODERMA; LOCALIZED SCLERODERMA; PUVA; REVIEW; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SOUND TRANSMISSION; CHILD; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SKIN;

CHILD; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; SCLERODERMA, LOCALIZED; SKIN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 70349576226     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-009-0028-y     Document Type: Review

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