A multicentre study on the reliability of qualitative and quantitative nail-fold videocapillaroscopy assessment

Rheumatology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 749-755

  Hofstee, Herman M A ^a   Serné, Erik H ^a   Roberts, Christopher ^b   Hesselstrand, Roger ^c   Scheja, Agneta ^c   Moore, Tonia L ^b   Wildt, Marie ^c   Manning, Joanne B ^d   Noordegraaf, Anton Vonk ^a   Voskuyl, Alexandre E ^a   Herrick, Ariane L ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d SALFORD ROYAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nail fold video capillaroscopy; Raynaud's phenomenon; Reliability; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CAPILLARY; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; NAIL; NAIL BED; NAIL COLOR; NAIL FOLD; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWEDEN; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; VASCULARIZATION;

CAPILLARIES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPIC ANGIOSCOPY; NAILS; OBSERVER VARIATION; RAYNAUD DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84858678453     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/ker403     Document Type: Article

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