A case series to describe the clinical characteristics of foot ulceration in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 541-545

  Siddle, Heidi J ^a   Firth, Jill ^a   Waxman, Robin ^a   Nelson, E Andrea ^a   Helliwell, Philip S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case series; Foot ulceration; Healing; Rheumatoid arthritis; Wound

Indexed keywords

DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOOT MALFORMATION; FOOT ULCER; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; MALE; METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT; NEUROPATHY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSATION; STEROID THERAPY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; FOOT ULCER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84859756180     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: 14349949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-011-1886-z     Document Type: Article

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