Bone marrow oedema predicts structural progression in a 1-year follow-up of 85 patients with RA in remission or with low disease activity with low-field MRI

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2159-2162

  Gandjbakhch, Frederique ^a   Foltz, V ^a   Mallet, A ^b   Bourgeois, P ^a   Fautrel, B ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW EDEMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVITIS;

ADULT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BONE MARROW DISEASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EDEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION INDUCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNOVITIS; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 84860389573     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2010.149377     Document Type: Article

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