Performance of Skin Ultrasound to Measure Skin Involvement in Different Animal Models of Systemic Sclerosis

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 845-852

  Elhai, Muriel ^a   Jerome Avouac ^a   Marchiol, Carmen ^a   Renault, Gilles ^a   Ruiz, Barbara ^a   Fréchet, Maxime ^a   Chiocchia, Gilles ^a   Allanore, Yannick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Animal models; Dermal thickness; Skin ultrasound; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

DERMATITIS; DERMATOLOGY; PEPTIDES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

ANIMAL MODEL; DERMAL THICKNESS; HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUNDS; HISTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; SKIN THICKNESS; SMALL ANIMAL; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

MAMMALS;

BLEOMYCIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN FIBROSIS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BLEOMYCIN; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84875804052     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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