Symptom and joint mobility progression in the joint hypermobility syndrome (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, hypermobility type)

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 998-1005

  Castori, Marco ^a   Sperduti, Isabella ^b   Celletti, Claudia ^c   Camerota, Filippo ^c   Grammatico, Paola ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ehlers danlos syndrome hypermobility type; Evolution; Joint hypermobility syndrome; Natural history

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC GASTRITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JOINT DISLOCATION; JOINT HYPERMOBILITY; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE STRAIN; MYALGIA; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; SPRAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; TENDINITIS; TENDON RUPTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EHLERS-DANLOS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; JOINT INSTABILITY; JOINTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; ROC CURVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857577450     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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