Vascular involvement in patients with giant cell arteritis determined by duplex sonography of 2x11 arterial regions

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1356-1359

  Aschwanden, Markus ^a   Kesten, Friederike ^a   Stern, Martin ^a   Thalhammer, Christoph ^a   Walker, Ulrich A ^a   Tyndall, Alan ^a   Jaeger, Kurt A ^a   Hess, Christoph ^a   Daikeler, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIMB BLOOD VESSEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ISCHEMIA; LEG; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL ARTERY; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL ARTERIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASCULITIS;

EID: 77955000658     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2009.122135     Document Type: Article

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