Quantitative analysis of vascularization in the finger joints in patients with rheumatoid arthritis using three-dimensional volumetric ultrasonography with power Doppler

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 299-307

  Watanabe, Tsuneo ^a,b   Takemura, Masao ^b   Sato, Masao ^c   Sekine, Ayako ^b   Fukuoka, Daisuke ^c   Seishima, Mitsuru ^c   Shimizu, Katsuji ^c   Matsuoka, Toshio ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finger joints; Power Doppler; Rheumatoid arthritis; Synovitis; Three dimensional volumetric ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; BUCILLAMINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ETANERCEPT; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TACROLIMUS; TOCILIZUMAB;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HUMAN; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84856743668     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: 14349949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-011-1811-5     Document Type: Article

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