Modern imaging techniques: a revolution for rheumatology practice

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 951-959

  Cimmino, Marco A ^a   Grassi, Walter ^b   Cutolo, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

laser Doppler; magnetic resonance imaging; ultrasonography; videocapillaroscopy

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; CYCLOSPORIN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; METHOTREXATE;

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BONE SWELLING; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTHESITIS; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MICROCIRCULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; REMISSION; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERODERMA; STANDARDIZATION; SYNOVITIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIDEOCAPILLAROSCOPY;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; JOINTS; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; RHEUMATOLOGY;

EID: 56749184060     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2008.08.007     Document Type: Review

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