Quantitative assessment of synovial inflammation by dynamic gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging. A study of the effect of intra-articular methylprednisolone on the rate of early synovial enhancement

Revmatologiia

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 50-59

  Ostergaard M ^a   Stoltenberg, M ^a   Henriksen, O ^a   Lorenzen, I ^a  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Gadolinium; Gadopentetate dimeglumine; Knee; MRI; Rheumatoid arthritis; Synovitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; INTRAARTICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KNEE ARTHRITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REMISSION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYNOVITIS; SYNOVIUM;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; KNEE JOINT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PENTETIC ACID; REMISSION INDUCTION; SYNOVITIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029944660     PISSN: 13100505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/35.1.50     Document Type: Article

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