Value of digital X-ray radiogrammetry in the assessment of inflammatory bone loss in rheumatoid arthritis

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 666-674

  Pfeil, Alexander ^a   Haugeberg, Glenn ^b   Hansch, Andreas ^a   Renz, Diane M ^c   Lehmann, Gabriele ^a   Malich, Ansgar ^d   Wolf, Gunter ^a   Böttcher, Joachim ^e  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Suedharz Clinic Nordhausen   (Germany)

^e SRH Wald Klinikum Gera   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; CYTOKINE; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; OSTEOCLAST DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; OSTEOPROTEGERIN; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE EROSION; BONE MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIGITAL IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MORTALITY; OSTEOCLAST ACTIVITY; OSTEOLYSIS; PERIARTICULAR JOINT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; X RAY;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BONE DENSITY; HAND BONES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958815070     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.20423     Document Type: Article

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