Consensus opinion of a North American Working Group regarding the classification of digital ulcers in systemic sclerosis

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 207-214

  Baron, Murray ^a   Chung, Lorinda ^b   Gyger, Geneviève ^a   Hummers, Laura ^c   Khanna, Dinesh ^d   Mayes, Maureen D ^e   Pope, Janet E ^f   Shah, Ami A ^c   Steen, Virginia D ^g   Steele, Russell ^h   Tatibouet, Solène ^a   Herrick, Ariane ⁱ   Müller Ladner, Ulf ^j,k   Hudson, Marie ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^g GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^j JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^k KERCKHOFF HEART CENTER   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Digital ulcers; Ischemia; Psychometrics; Reliability; Scleroderma; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN ULCER;

EID: 84893964907     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: 14349949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-013-2460-7     Document Type: Article

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