Can Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Hand and Wrist Differentiate Between Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis in the Early Stages of the Disease?

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 234-245

  Narváez, Javier ^a   Narváez, Jose Antonio ^a   de Albert, Matías ^a   Gómez Vaquero, Carmen ^a   Nolla, Joan Miquel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Differential Diagnosis; Early Psoriatic Arthritis; Early Rheumatoid Arthritis; Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; BONE MARROW EDEMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; ENTHESITIS; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FLEXOR TENDON; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; RELIABILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVITIS; TENOSYNOVITIS; WRIST;

ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNOVITIS; TENDINOPATHY; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 84869119488     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: 1532866X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2012.03.016     Document Type: Article

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