Pigmented villonodular synovitis diagnostic delay due to coexistence with ankylosing spondylitis

Reumatologia Clinica

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 270-271

  Vela, Paloma ^a   Andrés, Mariano ^a   Feliu, Eloisa ^b   Jovani, Vega ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b Unidad de Resonancia Magnética Erescanner Salud UTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ETANERCEPT; HEMOSIDERIN; RHENIUM 186;

ADULT; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT BIOPSY; LETTER; LOCAL THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENTED VILLONODULAR SYNOVITIS; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; RADIOSURGERY; SYNOVECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; COMPLICATION; SYNOVITIS, PIGMENTED VILLONODULAR;

DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; SYNOVITIS, PIGMENTED VILLONODULAR;

EID: 84902810086     PISSN: 1699258X     EISSN: 18851398     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reuma.2013.11.001     Document Type: Letter

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