Validation of the classification criteria for cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis

Rheumatology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2209-2213

  Quartuccio, Luca ^a   Isola, Miriam ^b   Corazza, Laura ^a   Ramos Casals, Manuel ^c   Retamozo, Soledad ^c   Ragab, Gaafar Mohamed ^d   Naguib Zoheir, Mostafa ^d   El Menyawi, Manal Abdel Moneim ^d   Salem, Mohamed Nabil ^e   Sansonno, Domenico ^f   Ferraccioli, Gianfranco ^g   Gremese, Elisa ^g   Tzioufas, Athanasios ^h   Voulgarelis, Michael ^h   Vassilopoulos, Dimitris ⁱ   Scarpato, Salvatore ^j   Pipitone, Nicolò ^k   Salvarani, Carlo ^k   Guillevin, Loic ^l   Terrier, Benjamin ^l   Cacoub, Patrice ^m   Filippini, Davide ⁿ   Saccardo, Francesco ^o   Gabrielli, Armando ^p   Fraticelli, Paolo ^p   Sebastiani, Marco ^q   Tomsic, Matija ^r   Tavoni, Antonio ^s   Mazzaro, Cesare ^t   Pioltelli, Pietro ^u   Nishimoto, Norihiro ^v   Scaini, Patrizia ^w   Zignego, Anna Linda ^x   Ferri, Clodoveo ^q   Monti, Giuseppe ^o   Pietrogrande, Maurizio ^y   Bombardieri, Stefano ^s   Galli, Massimo ^z   De Vita, Salvatore ^a   more..

^a Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria S Maria della Misericordia Udine   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^d CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^e BENI SUEF UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^g CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

ⁱ HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^j Rheumatology Unit   (Italy)

^k Division of Rheumatology   (Italy)

^l PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^m université Paris Cité   (France)

ⁿ OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^o Ospedale di Saronno   (Italy)

^p UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^q UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^r UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^s UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^t Pordenone General Hospital   (Italy)

^u Internal Medicine   (Italy)

^v TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^w Nephrology Institute   (Italy)

^x UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^y Policlinico San Marco   (Italy)

^z UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Classification; Cryoglobulinaemia; Hepatitis C; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; CRYOGLOBULIN; PARAPROTEIN; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; CRYOGLOBULINEMIC VASCULITIS; CRYOGLOBULINEMIC VASCULITIS CLASSIFICATION CRITERIA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; EGYPT; FEMALE; FRANCE; GOLD STANDARD; GREECE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; ITALY; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLOVENIA; SPAIN; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS; VALIDATION STUDY; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; HEPATITIS C; MULTICENTER STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS;

EID: 84910138473     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keu271     Document Type: Article

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