Clinical evaluation and power Doppler sonography in rheumatoid arthritis: Evidence for ongoing synovial inflammation in clinical remission

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 240-245

  Ozgocmen, Salih ^a   Ozdemir, Huseyin ^a   Kiris, Adem ^a   Bozgeyik, Zulkif ^a   Ardicoglu, Ozge ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Disease activity; Power doppler; Rheumatoid arthritis; Spectral Doppler

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; INFLIXIMAB; LEFLUNOMIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HAND FUNCTION; HAND JOINT; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; JOINT EXAMINATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNOVITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 41849088057     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e318164e16a     Document Type: Article

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