Rheumatic diseases. 1. Differential diagnosis.

Abstract:

:In a case of rheumatic disease, the patient's history and a careful physical examination should yield most of the information needed to identify the specific disorder present. A convenient classification is based on four differentiating features: number of joints affected, acuteness or chronicity of disease, absence of joint involvement, and anatomic distribution.

journal_name

Postgrad Med

journal_title

Postgraduate medicine

authors

Weiss TE,Gum OB,Biundo JJ Jr

doi

10.1080/00325481.1976.11708414

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1976-12-01 00:00:00

pages

141-50

issue

6

eissn

0032-5481

issn

1941-9260

journal_volume

60

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