Musculoskeletal ultrasonography assists the diagnostic performance of the 2010 classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 36-43

  Kawashiri, Shin Ya ^a   Suzuki, Takahisa ^a   Okada, Akitomo ^a   Yamasaki, Satoshi ^a   Tamai, Mami ^a   Nakamura, Hideki ^a   Origuchi, Tomoki ^a   Mizokami, Akinari ^b   Uetani, Masataka ^a   Aoyagi, Kiyoshi ^a   Eguchi, Katsumi ^c   Kawakami, Atsushi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nagasaki Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^c Sasebo Shiritsu Sogo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

2010 RA classification criteria; MRI; Power Doppler; Rheumatoid arthritis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 84872490166     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-012-0628-7     Document Type: Article

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