Colour-duplex ultrasonography of the temporal and ophthalmic arteries in the diagnosis and follow-up of giant cell arteritis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 27, Issue 1 SUPPL. 52, 2009, Pages

  Pérez López, Jordi ^a   Solans Laqué, Roser ^a   Bosch Gil, Josep Angel ^a   Molina Cateriano, Carlos ^a   Huguet Redecilla, Pere ^a   Vilardell Tarrés, Miguel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Follow up study; Giant cell arteritis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOUR DUPLEX ULTRASONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MECHANICAL PROBE; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REMISSION; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL ARTERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BLINDNESS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TEMPORAL ARTERIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 70450239630     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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