Documenting Damage Progression in a Two-Year Longitudinal Study of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients with Established Disease (the DAMAGE Study Cohort): Is There an Advantage in the Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging as Compared with Plain Radiography?

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1383-1389

  Bird, Paul ^a,c   Kirkham, Bruce ^b   Portek, Ian ^c   Shnier, Ron ^c   Joshua, Fredrick ^c   Edmonds, John ^a   Lassere, Marissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT NECROSIS; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; LARSEN SCORE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 2342500844     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.20165     Document Type: Article

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