Assessment of capillary density in systemic sclerosis with three different capillaroscopic methods

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL.71, 2012, Pages

  Wildt, Marie ^a   Wuttge, Dirk M ^a   Hesselstrand, Roger ^a   Scheja, Agneta ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Capillaroscopy; Capillary density; Capillary microscopy; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM ERROR; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAPILLARIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANGIOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCLERODERMA, DIFFUSE; SCLERODERMA, LIMITED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWEDEN; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84867379020     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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