Magnetic resonance imaging, radiography, and scintigraphy of the finger joints: One year follow up of patients with early arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 521-528

  Klarlund, M ^a,b   Ostergaard M ^a,b   Jensen, K E ^a,b   Madsen, J Lysgård ^b   Skjodt H ^b   Lorenzen, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; JOINT SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIUM; TENOSYNOVITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNOVITIS; TENOSYNOVITIS;

EID: 0033945108     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.59.7.521     Document Type: Article

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