How to perform and interpret capillaroscopy

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 237-248

  Cutolo, Maurizio ^a   Sulli, Alberto ^a   Smith, Vanessa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Capillaroscopy; Connective tissue diseases; Imaging; Raynaud's phenomenon; Scleroderma patterns; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE ANTIBODY; SCL 70 ANTIBODY; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FINGER; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; MICROANGIOPATHY; MICROSCOPE; MICROVASCULATURE; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; NAILFOLD CAPILLARY MICROSCOPY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POLYMYOSITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SCLERODERMA; SCORING SYSTEM; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SKIN CAPILLARY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 84878556684     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: 15321770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2013.03.001     Document Type: Review

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