Noninfectious ascending aortitis: Staying ahead of the curve

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2137-2140

  Merkel, Peter A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; AORTITIS; ASCENDING AORTA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; VASCULITIS;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; AORTA; AORTITIS; AORTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TAKAYASU ARTERITIS;

EID: 70450191315     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.090920     Document Type: Editorial

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