Arterial vasculopathy in systemic sclerosis: Computerized tomography (CT) angiographic features of macrovascular and microvascular upper limbs arteries

Joint Bone Spine

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 433-437

  Emad, Yasser ^a,b   Al Sherbeni, Hend ^a   Ragab, Yasser ^a,b   Abo El Youn, Ihab ^a   El Shaarawy, Nashwa ^c   Nassar, Dina Y ^d   Fathy, Ahmed ^a   Al Hanafi, Hadeel ^a   Rasker, Johannes J ^e  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Department Faculty of medicine Dr Erfan and Bagedo General Hospital ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

^c Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^d AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CT angiography; Digital ulcers; Scleroderma; Systemic sclerosis; Upper limb ischemia; Vasculopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN RHEUMATISM ASSOCIATION CRITERIA; ARM DISEASE; ARTERIAL VASCULOPATHY; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; AXILLARY ARTERY; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; FEMALE; FINGER ULCER; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIAL ARTERY; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ULNAR ARTERY; VASCULAR DISEASE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARM; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROVASCULATURE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84927689553     PISSN: 1297319X     EISSN: 17787254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2014.03.014     Document Type: Article

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