Radiological scoring methods for ankylosing spondylitis: A comparison between the bath ankylosing spondylitis radiology index and the modified stoke ankylosing spondylitis spine score

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-74

  Salaffi, Fausto ^a   Carotti, Marina ^a   Garofalo, Giovanna ^a   Giuseppetti, Gian Marco ^a   Grassi, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ankylosing spondylitis; BASRI; Intra and interobserver reliability; mSASSS; Radiographic scoring methods

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINE MOBILITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SACROILIAC JOINT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING;

EID: 33947599376     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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