Reassessing classification criteria for Takayasu arteritis: Comment on the article by Lee et al

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3818-3819

  Balink, H ^a   Houtman, P M ^a   Verberne, H J ^b  

^a MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTERIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENTHESITIS; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ISCHIAL TUBEROSITY; LETTER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; RENAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVASCULARIZATION; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHOULDER; SYNOVITIS; VASCULITIS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

AORTA; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TAKAYASU ARTERITIS;

EID: 84868088775     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.34634     Document Type: Letter

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