Radiographic tools for assessment of pathologic cartilage calcification

Current Opinion in Rheumatology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 296-301

  Sofka, Carolyn M ^a   Ghelman, Bernard ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPATHY; CHONDROCALCINOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PERIARTICULAR JOINT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE CALCIFICATION; SOFT TISSUE RADIOGRAPHY;

ARTHROGRAPHY; CALCINOSIS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DURAPATITE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0038746711     PISSN: 10408711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002281-200305000-00018     Document Type: Review

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