Technology insight: The role of color and power Doppler ultrasonography in rheumatology

Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-42

  Schmidt, Wolfgang A ^a,b  

^a Medical Center for Rheumatology   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ETANERCEPT; INFLIXIMAB;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; BONE EROSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENTHESITIS; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; JOINT EFFUSION; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; META ANALYSIS; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPHYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVITIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; RHEUMATOLOGY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASCULITIS;

EID: 33847000863     PISSN: 17458382     EISSN: 17458390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncprheum0377     Document Type: Review

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