Evaluation of Rheumatoid Arthritis Using a Scoring System Devised from Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Rheumatoid Knees

Acta Medica Okayama

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 211-224

  Takeuchi, Kazuhiro ^a   Inoue, Hajime ^a   Yokoyama, Yoshiki ^a   Senda, Masuo ^a   Ota, Yusuke ^a   Abe, Nobuhiro ^a   Nishida, Keiichiro ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Rheumatoid arthritis; Scoring system; Synovial membrane

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; KNEE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0032133146     PISSN: 0386300X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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