The role of ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging in early rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 21, Issue 5 SUPPL. 31, 2003, Pages

  Wakefield, Richard J ^a   Kong, Kok Ooi ^a   Conaghan, Philip G ^a   Brown, Andrew K ^a   O'Connor, Philip J ^a   Emery, Paul ^a  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Erosion; Magnetic resonance imaging; Rheumatoid arthritis; Synovitis; Tenosynovitis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; CORTICOSTEROID; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; INFLIXIMAB; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE;

BIOMECHANICS; BONE DISEASE; BONE EROSION; BONE INJURY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JOINT EFFUSION; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVITIS; TENOSYNOVITIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0142061941     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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