Salivary gland ultrasonography: Can it be an alternative to sialography as an imaging modality for Sjögren's syndrome?

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1321-1324

  Takagi, Yukinori ^a   Kimura, Yasuo ^a   Nakamura, Hideki ^b   Sasaki, Miho ^a   Eguchi, Katsumi ^b   Nakamura, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALIVARY GLAND ULTRASONOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIALOGRAPHY; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SUBMANDIBULAR ULTRASONOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAROTID GLAND; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SALIVARY GLAND; SALIVATION;

ADULT; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAROTID GLAND; SALIVARY GLANDS; SALIVATION; SIALOGRAPHY; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND;

EID: 77955000076     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2009.123836     Document Type: Article

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