American college of rheumatology report on reasonable use of musculoskeletal ultrasonography in rheumatology clinical practice

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1625-1640

  McAlindon, Timothy ^a   Kissin, Eugene ^b   Nazarian, Levon ^c   Ranganath, Veena ^d   Prakash, Shraddha ^d   Taylor, Mihaela ^d   Bannuru, Raveendhara R ^a   Srinivasan, Sachin ^d   Gogia, Maneesh ^d   McMahon, Maureen A ^d   Grossman, Jennifer ^d   Kafaja, Suzanne ^d   Fitzgerald, John ^d  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSENSUS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; POLYARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SHOULDER PAIN; SPINAL PAIN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; RHEUMATOLOGY; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868260350     PISSN: 2151464X     EISSN: 21514658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.21836     Document Type: Article

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