Using ultrasonography to facilitate best practice in diagnosis and management of RA

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 698-706

  Brown, Andrew K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR INHIBITOR;

ARTHROPATHY; BONE EROSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG RESPONSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MUSCULOSKELETAL DIAGNOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVITIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS;

EID: 75049085740     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2009.227     Document Type: Review

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