High white blood cell count in patients with giant cell arteritis predicts an increased risk of stenosis in upper extremity arteries

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1879-1880

  Both, M ^a   Schulte, K ^a   Moosig, F ^b   Fritzer, E ^a   Gross, W L ^b   Heller, M ^a   Biederer, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

AGED; AXILLARY ARTERY; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TEMPORAL ARTERY; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

AGED; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 80052443943     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2010.146910     Document Type: Letter

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