Assessment of rheumatoid arthritis using a modified scoring method on digitized and original radiographs

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1583-1590

  Genant, Harry K ^a   Jiang, Yebin ^a   Peterfy, Charles ^a   Lu, Ying ^a   Rédei, Janos ^a   Countryman, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTHROGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FINGER JOINT; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 0031657148     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(199809)41:9<1583::AID-ART8>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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