Digital ulcers in scleroderma: staging, characteristics and sub-setting through observation of 1614 digital lesions

Rheumatology

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1374-1382

  Amanzi, Laura ^a,b   Braschi, Francesca ^a,b   Fiori, Ginevra ^a,b   Galluccio, Felice ^a,b   Miniati, Irene ^a   Guiducci, Serena ^a   Conforti, Maria Letizia ^a   Kaloudi, Olga ^a   Nacci, Francesca ^a   Sacu, Oana ^a   Candelieri, Antonio ^c   Pignone, Alberto ^d   Rasero, Laura ^b   Conforti, Domenico ^c   Matucci Cerinic, Marco ^a,b  

^a AOUC   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^d Division of Emergency Medicine   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calcinosis; Digital pitting scar; Digital ulcers; Gangrene; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCINOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL PITTING SCAR; DIGITAL ULCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FINGER TIP INJURY; GANGRENE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERODERMA; SKIN ULCER; ULCER HEALING;

CALCINOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HUMANS; MALE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN ULCER; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954186831     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keq097     Document Type: Article

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