Ultrasound imaging for the rheumatologist VII. Ultrasound imaging in rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-10

  Filippucci, Emilio ^a   Iagnocco, Annamaria ^b   Meenagh, Gary ^c   Riente, Lucrezia ^d   Delle Sedie, Andrea ^d   Bombardieri, Stefano ^d   Valesini, Guido ^b   Grassi, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c WESTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bone erosion; Rheumatoid arthritis; Synovitis; Therapy monitoring; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOCORTICOID; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INHIBITOR;

BONE EROSION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG RESPONSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HUMAN; JOINT CAVITY; JOINT EFFUSION; JOINT EXAMINATION; JOINT SWELLING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MONOTHERAPY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYNOVITIS; TENDON RUPTURE; TENOSYNOVITIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYNOVITIS; TENOSYNOVITIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 33947597523     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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