Established rheumatoid arthritis - new imaging modalities

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 841-856

  McQueen, Fiona M ^a   Østergaard, Mikkel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

computerized tomographic scanning; fluorescence reflectance imaging; high resolution ultrasound; magnetic resonance imaging; positron emission tomography; scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; CONTRAST MEDIUM; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; ETANERCEPT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; METHOTREXATE; PLACEBO; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INHIBITOR;

BIOLUMINESCENCE; BONE EROSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; JOINT SCINTISCANNING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYNOVITIS; TENDON RUPTURE; TENOSYNOVITIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 34548532813     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2007.05.001     Document Type: Review

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