Digital x-ray radiogrammetry combined with semiautomated analysis of joint space widths as a new diagnostic approach in rheumatoid arthritis: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3850-3859

  Bottcher J ^a   Pfeil, A ^b   Rosholm, A ^a   Petrovitch, A ^a   Seidl, B E ^a   Malich, A ^a   Schafer M L ^a   Kramer, A ^a   Mentzel, H J ^a   Lehmann, G ^a   Hein, G ^a   Kaiser, W A ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Sectra Pronosco A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BONE DEMINERALIZATION; BONE DENSITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL X RAY RADIOGRAMMETRY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT CAVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METACARPAL BONE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BONE DENSITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 29144508499     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.21606     Document Type: Article

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