Change of synovial vascularity in a single finger joint assessed by power doppler sonography correlated with radiographic change in rheumatoid arthritis: Comparative study of a novel quantitative score with a semiquantitative score

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 657-663

  Fukae, Jun ^a   Kon, Yujiro ^a   Henmi, Mihoko ^a   Sakamoto, Fumihiko ^a   Narita, Akihiro ^a   Shimizu, Masato ^a   Tanimura, Kazuhide ^a   Matsuhashi, Megumi ^a   Kamishima, Tamotsu ^b   Atsumi, Tatsuya ^c   Koike, Takao ^c  

^a Tokeidai Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURANOFIN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOOT RADIOGRAPHY; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNOVIUM; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTHROGRAPHY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951733267     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.20110     Document Type: Article

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