Diagnosis and/or classification of vasculitis: Different?

Current Opinion in Rheumatology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 3-7

  Yazici, Hasan ^a   Yazici, Yusuf ^b  

^a Department of Medicine   (Turkey)

^b NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Criteria; Diagnosis; Nomenclature; Perpetual motion machine; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VASCULITIS; CLASSIFICATION;

HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VASCULITIS;

EID: 84948718673     PISSN: 10408711     EISSN: 15316963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOR.0000000000000230     Document Type: Review

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