Undifferentiated connective tissue diseases (UCTD): Simplified systemic autoimmune diseases

Autoimmunity Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 256-258

  Mosca, Marta ^a   Tani, Chiara ^a   Talarico, Rosaria ^a   Bombardieri, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classification criteria; Diagnosis; Undifferentiated connective tissue diseases

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY;

ANEMIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOPENIA; MOUTH DISEASE; ORAL APHTOSIS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; XEROPHTHALMIA; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 79952036666     PISSN: 15689972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2010.09.013     Document Type: Review

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