Undifferentiated connective tissue disease in a rheumatology center in Cali, Colombia: Clinical features of 94 patients followed for a year

Rheumatology International

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1085-1088

  Guerrero, Luis F ^a   Rueda, Juan C ^b   Arciniegas, Raquel ^c   Rueda, Jorge M ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD LIBRE   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA   (Colombia)

^c CENTRO MÉDICO IMBANACO   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Colombia; Connective tissue disease; Raynaud's phenomenon; Undifferentiated connective tissue disease

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; GLUCOCORTICOID; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLOMBIA; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; UNDIFFERENTIATED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COLOMBIA; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME;

EID: 84886627049     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: 1437160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-011-2234-y     Document Type: Article

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