Systemic vasculitis-is it time to reclassify?

Rheumatology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 643-645

  Watts, Richard A ^a,b   Suppiah, Ravi ^c   Merkel, Peter A ^d   Luqmani, Raashid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b IPSWICH HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c NUFFIELD ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC VASCULITIS; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ANTI-NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY-ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; BIOPSY; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS; TAKAYASU ARTERITIS; VASCULITIS, LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC, CUTANEOUS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 79952788847     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keq229     Document Type: Editorial

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