Healing of erosive changes in rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 5 SUPPL. 35, 2004, Pages

  Rau, Rolf ^a   Herborn, G ^b   Wasenberg, S ^b  

^a Evangelisches Fachkrankenhaus   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Erosion healing; Erosion repair; Radiographic evaluation; Rheumatoid arthritis; Scoring methods

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; AURANOFIN; ETANERCEPT; GOLD; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; ANAKINRA;

BONE EROSION; BONE REMODELING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JOINT DESTRUCTION; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; ARTICLE; BONE INJURY; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; EROSION HEALING; INFLAMMATION; JOINT INJURY; JOINT SWELLING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REMISSION; WOUND HEALING;

ARTHRITIS, JUVENILE RHEUMATOID; HUMANS; JOINTS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 4944221011     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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