Dynamic gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of the wrist in patients with rheumatoid arthritis can discriminate active from inactive disease

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1207-1213

  Cimmino, Marco A ^a   Innocenti, Stefania ^b   Livrone, Fabrizio ^a   Magnaguagno, Francesca ^a   Silvestri, Enzo ^a   Garlaschi, Giacomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Esaote   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; JOINT STIFFNESS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RITCHIE INDEX; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNOVIUM; WRIST DISEASE;

ADULT; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 0037653349     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.10962     Document Type: Article

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