title: [Value of laboratory diagnosis in inflammatory rheumatologic diseases].
abstract: Laboratory investigations play an important part in the diagnostic procedures of inflammatory rheumatic diseases. Besides the classical humoral inflammatory parameters (erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, protein electrophoresis), hematology, blood chemistry, infectious serology and synovial fluid analysis we want to focus in this review on the more detailed diagnostic by autoantibody testing as well as by specific molecularbiological procedures (PCR technique).
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Rheumatologie und Klinische Immunologie/Allergologie, Universität Bern, Inselspital Bern.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seitz
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Villiger
mesh_terms: D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000032:analysis; D001774:Blood Chemical Analysis; D002648:Child; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D003165:Complement System Proteins / Q000032:analysis; D003450:Cryoglobulins / Q000032:analysis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007158:Immunologic Techniques; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012216:Rheumatic Diseases / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D001323:Autoantibodies; D003450:Cryoglobulins; D003165:Complement System Proteins