Feet nailfold capillaroscopy is not useful to detect the typical scleroderma pattern

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL.71, 2012, Pages

  Batticciotto, A ^a   Atzeni, F ^a,b   Foglia, S ^c   Antivalle, M ^a   Serafin, A ^c   Sarzi Puttini, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AVASCULAR AREA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CAPILLARY RAMIFICATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; CUTANEOUS TRANSPARENCY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GIANT CAPILLARY; HUMAN; LETTER; MACROVASCULAR ARRAY DISORGANIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROANEURYSM; NAILFOLD CAPILLAROSCOPY; NEOANGIOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN BLEEDING; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; VENOUS PLEXUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAPILLARIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANGIOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867343161     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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