Validation of ultrasound imaging for Achilles entheseal fibrocartilage in bovines and description of changes in humans with spondyloarthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2165-2168

  Aydin, Sibel Zehra ^a   Bas, Emine ^b   Basci, Onur ^b   Filippucci, Emilio ^c   Wakefield, Richard J ^a   Çelikel, Çiǧdem ^b   Karahan, Mustafa ^b   Atagunduz, Pamir ^b   Benjamin, Mike ^d   Direskeneli, Haner ^b   McGonagle, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROCARTILAGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; CATTLE; FEMALE; FIBROCARTILAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPONDYLARTHROPATHIES; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING;

EID: 78649735542     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2009.127175     Document Type: Article

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