Baker's cysts in knees with chronic osteoarthritic pain: A clinical, ultrasonographic, radiographic and scintigraphic evaluation

Rheumatology International

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 141-146

  Chatzopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Moralidis, Efstratios ^b   Markou, Pavlos ^c   Makris, Vassilios ^b   Arsos, Georgios ^b  

^a PAPAGEORGIOU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c Health Care Unit Management   (Greece)

Author keywords

Baker's cyst; Bone scintigraphy; Knee; Osteoarthritis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPLITEAL CYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SYNOVITIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PAIN; POPLITEAL CYST; PREVALENCE; SYNOVITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 55949090262     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-008-0639-z     Document Type: Article

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