Use of magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography in the assessment of synovial volume and glucose metabolism in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Arthritis & Rheumatism

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 819-825

  Polisson, Richard P ^a   Schoenberg, Oded I ^a   Fischman, Alan ^a   Rubin, Robert ^a   Simon, Lee S ^b   Rosenthal, Daniel ^a   Palmer, William E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEOXYGLUCOSE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FLUDEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GLUCOSE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGE; PREDNISONE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 0029008556     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.1780380616     Document Type: Article

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