Three Groups in the 28 Joints for Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovitis - Analysis Using More than 17,000 Assessments in the KURAMA Database

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Terao, Chikashi ^a   Hashimoto, Motomu ^a   Yamamoto, Keiichi ^b   Murakami, Kosaku ^a   Ohmura, Koichiro ^a   Nakashima, Ran ^a   Yamakawa, Noriyuki ^a   Yoshifuji, Hajime ^a   Yukawa, Naoichiro ^a   Kawabata, Daisuke ^a   Usui, Takashi ^a   Yoshitomi, Hiroyuki ^a   Furu, Moritoshi ^a   Yamada, Ryo ^a   Matsuda, Fumihiko ^a,c   Ito, Hiromu ^a   Fujii, Takao ^a   Mimori, Tsuneyo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ELBOW; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; JOINT; JOINT DESTRUCTION; JOINT SWELLING; KAPPA STATISTICS; KNEE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METACARPAL JOINT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SHOULDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNOVITIS; WRIST;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SHOULDER JOINT; SYNOVITIS; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 84875407318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059341     Document Type: Article

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