Imaging of polymyalgia rheumatica: Indications on its pathogenesis, diagnosis and prognosis

Rheumatology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-86

  Camellino, Dario ^a   Cimmino, Marco A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Polymyalgia rheumatica; Positron emission tomography; Radiography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ETIDRONIC ACID TC 99M; GALLIUM 67; GLUCOCORTICOID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; AXILLARY ARTERY; BICEPS LONG HEAD TENOSYNOVITIS; BILATERAL SUBACROMIAL BURSITIS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG UPTAKE; ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERSPINOUS BURSITIS; LARGE VESSEL VASCULITIS; MEDLINE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEITIS; PATHOGENESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGY; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; SCINTIGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOULDER GIRDLE; STERNOCLAVICULAR JOINT; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SYNOVITIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TROCHANTERIC BURSITIS;

BURSITIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; SYNOVITIS;

EID: 84855162387     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keq450     Document Type: Article

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