Reumatizam, Vol. 56 No. 1, 2009.
Professional paper
Capillaroscopy - an insufficiently known and underused method in rheumatology
Marko Barešić
; Department for Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Clinic for Internal Medicine, Clinical Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Branimir Anić
; Department for Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Clinic for Internal Medicine, Clinical Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Capillaroscopy is a noninvasive and harmless morphological method for examination of the nailfold capillaries in both suspected and already diagnosed patients with systemic connective disease. The most useful aspect is in discrimination between the patients with primary and secondary Raynaud’s phenomenon. Many of the mentioned features should make capillaroscopy a part of the diagnostic algorithm and follow-up in everyday rheumatologic practice.
Keywords
capillaroscopy; videocapillaroscopy; nailfold capillaries; Raynaud’s phenomenon; systemic sclerosis
Hrčak ID:
125220
URI
Publication date:
1.7.2009.
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