Diurnal variation of power Doppler in metacarpophalangeal joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A preliminary study

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1699-1700

  Semerano, Luca ^a,b   Gutierrez, Marwin ^c   Falgarone, Géraldine ^a,b   Filippucci, Emilio ^c   Guillot, Xavier ^a,b   Boissier, Marie Christophe ^a,b   Grassi, Walter ^c  

^a AVICENNE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LETTER; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MULTICENTER STUDY; POWER DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 80051475013     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2010.146761     Document Type: Letter

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