Bone marrow lesions: A universal bone response to injury?

Rheumatology International

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 575-584

  Eriksen, Erik Fink ^a   Ringe, Johan Diederich ^b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bisphosphonates; Bone histomorphometry; Bone marrow edema; Bone marrow lesions; Calcitonin; MRI; Osteoarthritis; Rheumatoid arthritis; Sudeks atrophy; Tendinitis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CALCITONIN; CYTOKINE; ILOPROST; PROSTAGLANDIN DERIVATIVE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR INHIBITOR; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENT;

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BONE BRUISE; BONE DISEASE; BONE INJURY; BONE MARROW DISEASE; BONE MARROW EDEMA SYNDROME; BONE MARROW INJURY; BONE METASTASIS; BONE NECROSIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BONE TISSUE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENTHESITIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOCHONDRITIS DISSECANS; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; REGIONAL TRANSIENT OSTEOPOROSIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; SYNOVITIS; TENDINITIS; TENOSYNOVITIS; TRANSIENT OSTEOPOROSIS; TRANSIENT REGIONAL OSTEOPOROSIS; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; BONE MARROW; FEMALE; INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW DISEASES; CALCITONIN; DIPHOSPHONATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84863313629     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: 1437160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-011-2141-2     Document Type: Review

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