Regional variation and differential response to therapy for knee synovitis adjacent to the cartilage-pannus junction and suprapatellar pouch in inflammatory arthritis: Implications for pathogenesis and treatment

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2428-2432

  Rhodes, Laura A ^a   Tan, Ai Lyn ^b   Tanner, Steven F ^a   Radjenovic, Aleksandra ^a   Hensor, Elizabeth M A ^b   Reece, Richard ^b   O'Connor, Philip ^b   Emery, Paul ^b   McGonagle, Dennis ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c CALDERDALE ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANNUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; SYNOVITIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATELLA; SPONDYLARTHROPATHIES; SYNOVITIS;

EID: 4043072182     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.20444     Document Type: Article

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