RA Imaging Study Group: Which imaging in rheumatoid arthritis?

Joint Bone Spine

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 438-439

  Levy, Gerald ^a   Chow, Chee ^b   Cimmino, Marco A ^c   Schmidt, Wolfgang A ^d  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d Medical Center for Rheumatology Berlin Buch   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Fellowship programs; Magnetic resonance imaging; Radiography; Rheumatoid arthritis; Scintigraphy; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEALTH CARE COST; IMAGING SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT SURVEY; SYNOVITIS; TENOSYNOVITIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649810740     PISSN: 1297319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2009.05.004     Document Type: Short Survey

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3. Backhaus M, Ohrndorf S, Kellner H, et al. Evaluation of a novel 7-joint ultrasound score (German US7 score) in daily rheumatologic practice - A pilot project. Arthritis Rheum (in press).
4. Levy G. Email surveys performed between January 18-February 6, 2009. 125 surveys sent to North American Fellowship programs with 48 responses received (38.4%) and 330 surveys sent to random North American members of the American College of Rheumatology with 64 responses received (19.4%).