Acute inflammatory ankle arthritis in Northern India - Löfgren's syndrome or poncet's disease?

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 87-90

  Garg, Shriram ^a   Malaviya, Anand N ^a,b   Kapoor, Sanjiv ^a   Rawat, Roopa ^a   Agarwal, Divya ^a   Sharma, Amit ^a  

^a INDIAN SPINAL INJURIES CENTRE   (India)

^b A and R Clinic for Arthritis and Rheumatism   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANKLE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOUS ARTHRITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANKLE JOINT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; ARTHRITIS; ARTHRITIS, REACTIVE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SARCOIDOSIS; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, OSTEOARTICULAR;

EID: 79851469435     PISSN: 00045772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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