Development of a colour Doppler ultrasound scoring system in patients of Takayasu's arteritis and its correlation with clinical activity score (ITAS 2010)

Rheumatology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2196-2202

  Sinha, Debanjali ^a   Mondal, Sumantro ^a   Nag, Arijit ^a   Ghosh, Alakendu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Colour Doppler ultrasound scoring; Indian Takayasu's activity score; Takayasu's arteritis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR DOPPLER ULTRASOUND KOLKATA SCORE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIAN TAKAYASU ACTIVITY SCORE; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RENAL ARTERY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STENOSIS; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; WAVEFORM;

COLOUR DOPPLER ULTRASOUND SCORING; INDIAN TAKAYASU'S ACTIVITY SCORE; TAKAYASU'S ARTERITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SUBCLAVIAN STEAL SYNDROME; TAKAYASU ARTERITIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887785340     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/ket289     Document Type: Article

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