Influence of the cold challenge on the discriminatory capacity of the digital distal-dorsal difference in the thermographic assessment of Raynaud's phenomenon

Microvascular Research

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 364-368

  Pauling, J D ^a   Flower, V ^a   Shipley, J A ^a   Harris, N D ^b   McHugh, N J ^a,c  

^a ROYAL NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR RHEUMATIC DISEASES   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL ARTERY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HAND PALM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMOGRAPHY; TISSUE PERFUSION;

ADULT; AGED; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLD TEMPERATURE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RAYNAUD DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THERMOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 81055157903     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: 10959319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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