Isolated aortitis versus giant cell arteritis: Are they really two sides of the same coin?

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL.82, 2014, Pages

  Talarico, Rosaria ^a   Boiardi, Luigi ^b   Pipitone, Nicolò ^b   D'Ascanio, Anna ^a   Stagnaro, Chiara ^a   Ferrari, Claudia ^a   Elefante, Elena ^a   Salvarani, Carlo ^b   Bombardieri, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Giant cell arteritis; Isolated aortitis

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTITIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG UPTAKE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; ISOLATED AORTITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOLOGY; SEX RATIO; SYMPTOM; THORACIC AORTA;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; AORTITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84901913661     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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