Pain in patients with equal radiographic grades of osteoarthritis in both knees: The value of gray scale ultrasound

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1507-1513

  Wu, P T ^a,b   Shao, C J ^c   Wu, K C ^d   Wu, T T ^c   Chern, T C ^e   Kuo, L C ^b   Jou, I M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAINAN MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d Kuo's General Hospital   (Taiwan)

^e Chern Tai Chung's Orthopedics Clinic   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Knee osteoarthritis; Meniscal protrusion; Pain; Synovitis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JOINT EFFUSION; KNEE DISEASE; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE PAIN; LATERAL COMPARTMENT SYNOVITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAL COMPARTMENT SYNOVITIS; MEDIAL MENISCUS PROTRUSION; OSTEOPHYTE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POPLITEAL CYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRAPATELLAR EFFUSION; SUPRAPATELLAR SYNOVITIS; SYNOVITIS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84867844008     PISSN: 10634584     EISSN: 15229653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2012.08.021     Document Type: Article

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