Evolution of paediatric-specific vasculitis classification criteria
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Evolution of paediatric-specific vasculitis classification criteria.
This issue of Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases includes two articles describing the proposed paediatric-specifi c classifi cation criteria for childhood polyarteritis nodosa (c-PAN), Wegener granulomatosis (c-WG), Takayasu arteritis (c-TA) and Henoch– Schönlein purpura (HSP) which resulted from an ambitious multicentre, international collaborative project that was initiated in Vienna in 2005 an...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2009.127886