Emerging Role of Ultrasonography in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Optimizing Diagnosis, Measuring Disease Activity and Identifying Prognostic Factors

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1173-1184

  Wells, Alvin F ^a   Haddad, Richard H ^b  

^a Rheumatology and Immunotherapy Center   (United States)

^b Allegra Rheumatology Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease activity; Early diagnosis; Inflammation; Long term outcomes; Prognostic indicators; Remission; Rheumatoid arthritis; Tight control; Treatment decision; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

EARLY DIAGNOSIS; INFLAMMATION; LONG-TERM OUTCOMES; PROGNOSTIC INDICATORS; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TIGHT CONTROL; TREATMENT DECISION;

HEALTH; MONITORING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSIS;

INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INHIBITOR;

BONE EROSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE 28; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; INFLAMMATION; JOINT DESTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REMISSION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNOVIAL HYPERTROPHY; SYNOVITIS; SYNOVIUM; X RAY;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79959830882     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.04.009     Document Type: Review

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