Clinical and epidemiologic analysis of giant cell (temporal) arteritis from a nationwide survey in 1998 in Japan: The first government‐supported nationwide survey

Kobayashi, S; Yano, Tetsuro; Matsumoto, Yoshifuji; Numano, Fujío; Nakajima, Nobuyuki; Yasuda, Keishu; Yutani, Chikao; Nakayama, Toshiko; Tamakoshi, Akiko; Kawamura, Takashi; Ohno, Yoshiyuki; Inaba, Yutaka; Hashimoto, Hiroshi

doi:10.1002/art.11195

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Clinical and epidemiologic analysis of giant cell (temporal) arteritis from a nationwide survey in 1998 in Japan: The first government‐supported nationwide survey

Published in Arthritis Care & Research • Aug 1, 2003

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S Kobayashi

Tetsuro Yano

Yoshifuji Matsumoto

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To elucidate epidemiologic and clinical manifestations of Japanese patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA), the first nationwide survey for GCA was conducted in 1998 in Japan. METHODS: The first questionnaire on GCA for patients treated in 1997 was sent to 10,717 medical departments in J...

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Polymyalgia rheumatica

Giant cell arteritis

Medicine

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