The relationship between synovitis and bone changes in early untreated rheumatoid arthritis: A controlled magnetic resonance imaging study

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1706-1711

  McGonagle, Dennis ^a   Conaghan, Philip G ^a   O'Connor, Philip ^b   Gibbon, Wayne ^b   Green, Michael ^a   Wakefield, Richard ^a   Ridgway, John ^b   Emery, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SYNOVITIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BONE CYSTS; BONE DISEASES; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNOVITIS;

EID: 0033509237     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(199908)42:8<1706::AID-ANR20>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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