Feet nailfold capillaroscopy is not useful to detect the typical scleroderma pattern

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL.76, 2013, Pages

  Nikolova Lambova, Sevdalina ^a,b,c   Muller Ladner U ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MHAT Health MS Palmed   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CAPILLARY LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEET NAILFOLD; FINGER; FINGER NAILFOLD; FINGER ULCER; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CAPILLARY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MICROANGIOPATHY; MICROCIRCULATION; NAILFOLD CAPILLAROSCOPY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TOE PHALANX; VASCULAR DISEASE; ANGIOSCOPY; CAPILLARY; FEMALE; MALE; NAIL; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

CAPILLARIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANGIOSCOPY; NAILS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 84883748091     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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