14-MHz ultrasonography as an outcome measure in morphea (localized scleroderma)

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 147, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1112-1115

  Nezafati, Kaveh A ^a   Cayce, Rachael L ^a   Susa, Joseph S ^a   Setiawan, Anthony T ^a   Tirkes, Temel ^a,b   Bendeck, Sandra E ^a   Jacobe, Heidi T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOCALIZED SCLERODERMA; MALE; MORPHEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCLERODERMA; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN EDEMA; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN INFLAMMATION; UNITED STATES; VALIDITY;

ADULT; BIOPSY; HUMANS; SCLERODERMA, LOCALIZED; SKIN;

EID: 80053077634     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2011.243     Document Type: Article

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