The new frontiers of ultrasound in the complex world of vasculitides and scleroderma

Rheumatology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL.7, 2012, Pages

  Porta, Francesco ^a   Gargani, Luna ^b   Kaloudi, Olga ^c   Schmidt, Wolfgang A ^d   Picano, Eugenio ^b   Damjanov, Nemanja ^e   Matucci Cerinic, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c Second Division of Internal Medicine   (Italy)

^d Medical Centre for Rheumatology Berlin Buch   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Heart; Lung; Musculoskeletal; Skin; Systemic sclerosis; Ultrasound; Vascular; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ARTERITIS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERODERMA; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN ATROPHY; SKIN EDEMA; SKIN FIBROSIS; SYNOVITIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; VASCULITIS;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; VASCULITIS;

EID: 84872465966     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kes336     Document Type: Article

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