Diagnostic values of history and clinical examination to predict ultrasound signs of chronic and acute enthesitis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 548-553

  Klauser, Andrea S ^a   Wipfler, Edith ^b   Dejaco, Christian ^b   Moriggl, Bernhard ^a   Duftner, Christina ^b   Schirmer, Michael ^a,b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Enthesopathy; Medical history taking; Musculoskeletal diseases; Sensitivity and specificity; Spondylarthritis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTHESITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PAIN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; TENDINOPATHY;

EID: 43949145345     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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