Preliminary analysis of the Very Early Diagnosis of Systemic Sclerosis (VEDOSS) EUSTAR multicentre study: evidence for puffy fingers as a pivotal sign for suspicion of systemic sclerosis

Tünde Minier; Serena Guiducci; Silvia Bellando-Randone; Cosimo Bruni; Gemma Lepri; László Czirják; Oliver Distler; Ulrich A Walker; Jaap Fransen; Yannick Allanore; Christopher Denton; Maurizio Cutolo; Alan Tyndall; Ulf Müller-Ladner; Marco Matucci-Cerinic; and the EUSTAR co-workers

doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-203716

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Preliminary analysis of the Very Early Diagnosis of Systemic Sclerosis (VEDOSS) EUSTAR multicentre study: evidence for puffy fingers as a pivotal sign for suspicion of systemic sclerosis

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Tünde Minier Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Serena Guiducci Department of Biomedicine, Division of Rheumatology AOUC and Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Silvia Bellando-Randone Department of Biomedicine, Division of Rheumatology AOUC and Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Cosimo Bruni Department of Biomedicine, Division of Rheumatology AOUC and Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Gemma Lepri Department of Biomedicine, Division of Rheumatology AOUC and Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
László Czirják Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Oliver Distler Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ulrich A Walker Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jaap Fransen Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Yannick Allanore Department of Rheumatology, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Christopher Denton Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, UCL Medical School, Royal Free Campus, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Maurizio Cutolo Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Research Laboratory and Academic Clinical Unit of Rheumatology, Viale Benedetto, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Alan Tyndall Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ulf Müller-Ladner Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Marco Matucci-Cerinic Department of Biomedicine, Division of Rheumatology AOUC and Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
and the EUSTAR co-workers
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Correspondence to Professor Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Division of Rheumatology AOUC, Denothe Centre, Department of Biomedicine, University of Florence, Villa Monna Tessa, Viale Pieraccini 18, Florence 50139, Italy; cerinic{at}unifi.it

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Minier T, Guiducci S, Bellando-Randone S, et al

Preliminary analysis of the Very Early Diagnosis of Systemic Sclerosis (VEDOSS) EUSTAR multicentre study: evidence for puffy fingers as a pivotal sign for suspicion of systemic sclerosis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2014;73:2087-2093.

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Received April 3, 2013
Revised July 5, 2013
Accepted July 15, 2013
First published August 12, 2013.

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October 25, 2017

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