Performance of the new 2012 EULAR/ACR classification criteria for polymyalgia rheumatica: Comparison with the previous criteria in a single-centre study

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1190-1193

  Macchioni, Pierluigi ^a   Boiardi, Luigi ^a   Catanoso, Mariagrazia ^a   Pazzola, Giulia ^a   Salvarani, Carlo ^a  

^a S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EUROPEAN LEAGUE AGAINST RHEUMATISM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASOUND;

BURSITIS; CLASSIFICATION CRITERIA; POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AREA UNDER CURVE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOANTIBODIES; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; RHEUMATOLOGY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOULDER JOINT;

EID: 84899905608     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204167     Document Type: Article

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