Three dimensional power Doppler ultrasonography confirms early reduction of synovial perfusion after intraarticular steroid injection [3]

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 411-412

  Strunk, J ^a   Strube, K ^a   Muller Ladner U ^a   Lange, U ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGING; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVITIS; VASCULARIZATION;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; SYNOVITIS; TRIAMCINOLONE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 33144459953     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2005.041210     Document Type: Letter

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