Hand Radiological Damage in Systemic Sclerosis: Comparison with a Control Group and Clinical and Functional Correlations

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 455-460

  Koutaissoff, Sophie ^a   Vanthuyne, Marie ^a   Smith, Vanessa ^b   De Langhe, Ellen ^c   Depresseux, Geneviève ^a   Westhovens, Rene ^c   De Keyser, Filip ^b   Malghem, Jacques ^a   Houssiau, Frédéric A ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hands; Radiology; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ACROOSTEOLYSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; CALCINOSIS; CARPAL JOINT; CARPOMETACARPAL JOINT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HAND DISEASE; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SUBLUXATION; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CALCINOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOLYSIS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953052618     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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