Ultrasonographic hand features in systemic sclerosis and correlates with clinical, biologic, and radiographic findings

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1244-1249

  Elhai, Muriel ^a   Guerini, Henri ^a   Bazeli, Ramin ^a   Avouac, Jerôme ^a   Freire, Véronique ^a   Drapé, Jean Luc ^a   Kahan, André ^a   Allanore, Yannick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCINOSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SYNOVITIS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TENOSYNOVITIS; WRIST;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SYNOVITIS; TENOSYNOVITIS;

EID: 84864423025     PISSN: 2151464X     EISSN: 21514658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.21668     Document Type: Article

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