Evaluation of pannus and vascularization of the metacarpophalangeal and proximal interphalangeal joints in rheumatoid arthritis by high-resolution ultrasound (multidimensional linear array)

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2303-2308

  Hau, Matthias ^a   Schultz, Hendrik ^a   Tony, Hans Peter ^a   Keberle, Marc ^a   Jahns, Roland ^a   Haerten, Rainer ^b   Jenett, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; PANNUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033511185     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(199911)42:11<2303::AID-ANR7>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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