Onychomycosis as a warning sign for peripheral arterial disease

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 747-748

  Fukunaga, Atsushi ^a   Washio, Ken ^a   Ogura, Kanako ^a   Taguchi, Kumiko ^a   Chiyomaru, Koji ^a   Ohno, Yoshiharu ^a   Masaki, Taro ^b   Nagai, Hiroshi ^a   Nagano, Tohru ^a   Oka, Masahiro ^a   Nishigori, Chikako ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Nishinomiya Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84886434289     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1576     Document Type: Article

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