Office-based low-field extremity magnetic resonance imaging: Is the glass half empty or half full?

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1048-1050

  Yocum, David E ^a   Conaghan, Philip G ^b   Olech, Ewa ^c   Peterfy, Charles G ^d  

^a GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d SYNARC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE EROSION; BONE MARROW; CARPAL BONE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVITIS; WRIST; AMBULATORY CARE; METHODOLOGY;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OFFICE VISITS;

EID: 33646406014     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.21761     Document Type: Note

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