Quantitative bone marrow lesion size in osteoarthritic knees correlates with cartilage damage and predicts longitudinal cartilage loss

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Driban, Jeffrey B ^a   Lo, Grace H ^b   Lee, Ji ^a   Ward, Robert J ^a   Miller, Eric ^c   Pang, Jincheng ^c   Price, Lori ^a   McAlindon, Timothy E ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYALINE CARTILAGE; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIBIA; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BONE MARROW DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; HOSPITALIZATION; KNEE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW DISEASES; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; HYALINE CARTILAGE; KNEE JOINT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIBIA;

EID: 80053364502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-12-217     Document Type: Article

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