Use of electronic tonometer to assess skin hardness in systemic sclerosis: A pilot cross-sectional study

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 27, Issue 3 SUPPL. 54, 2009, Pages

  Dugar, Manish ^a   Woolford, R ^a   Ahern, M J ^b   Smith, M D ^b   Roberts Thomson, P J ^a  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HARDNESS; HUMAN; LETTER; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; LYMPHEDEMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN FUNCTION; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TONOMETER;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; PILOT PROJECTS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SKIN;

EID: 70350278927     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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