Ultrasound can improve the accuracy of the 2010 American College of Rheumatology/European League against rheumatism classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis to predict the requirement for methotrexate treatment

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 890-898

  Nakagomi, Daiki ^a   Ikeda, Kei ^a   Okubo, Ayako ^a   Iwamoto, Taro ^a   Sanayama, Yoshie ^a   Takahashi, Kentaro ^a   Yamagata, Mieko ^a   Takatori, Hiroaki ^a   Suzuki, Kotaro ^a   Takabayashi, Katsuhiko ^a   Nakajima, Hiroshi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY EUROPEAN LEAGUE AGAINST RHEUMATISM CLASSIFICATION CRITERIA; ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JOINT SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVITIS;

EID: 84875750557     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.37848     Document Type: Article

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