Psoriasis patients with nail disease have a greater magnitude of underlying systemic subclinical enthesopathy than those with normal nails

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 553-556

  Ash, Zoe R ^a   Tinazzi, Ilaria ^b   Castillo Gallego, Concepción ^c   Kwok, Chung ^d   Wilson, Caroline ^d   Goodfield, Mark ^d   Gisondi, Paolo ^e   Tan, Ai Lyn ^a   Marzo Ortega, Helena ^a   Emery, Paul ^a   Wakefield, Richard J ^a   McGonagle, Dennis G ^a   Aydin, Sibel Z ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^d LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^f GOZTEPE TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM; ARTICLE; CHRONICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTHESITIS; ENTHESOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEG; MALE; MODIFIED NAIL PSORIASIS SEVERITY INDEX; NAIL DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; PSORIASIS SEVERITY INDEX; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAIL DISEASES; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOPHYTE; PSORIASIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857872640     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2011-200478     Document Type: Article

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