The WHO ILAR COPCORD Latin America: Consistent with the world and setting a new perspective

Journal of Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 167-169

  Chopra, Arvind ^a  

^a Center for Rheumatic Diseases   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA B27 ANTIGEN;

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; DISABILITY; FIBROMYALGIA; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GOUT; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NONARTICULAR RHEUMATISM; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84862206059     PISSN: 10761608     EISSN: 15367355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RHU.0b013e31825d929b     Document Type: Review

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