Imaging and scoring in ankylosing spondylitis

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 573-604

  Braun, J ^a,b   Van Der Heijde, D ^a,b  

^a RHEUMAZENTRUM RUHRGEBIET   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ankylosing spondylitis; AS outcome parameter; Magnetic resonance imaging of the spine; Spinal radiography; Spondyloarthritides

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ETANERCEPT; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; INFLIXIMAB; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY;

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; BACKACHE; BONE DENSITY; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT SCINTISCANNING; MYELITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACROILIAC JOINT; SACROILIITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLITIS; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; GOUT; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; OSTEITIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SAPHO SYNDROME; SARCOIDOSIS; SCINTIGRAPHY; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ADULT; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING;

EID: 0036730863     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1521-6942(02)90250-0     Document Type: Review

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