Is power Doppler sonography the new frontier in therapy monitoring?

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 424-428

  Grassi, Walter ^a   Filippucci, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Power Doppler sonography; Psoriatic arthritis; Rheumatoid arthritis; Therapy monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; ETANERCEPT; INFLIXIMAB; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYNOVITIS;

ADULT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 0042198906     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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