Advances in sonographic scoring of rheumatoid arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 72, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2013, Pages

  Ohrndorf, Sarah ^a   Backhaus, Marina ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; BURSITIS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DAS28; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DRUG RESPONSE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JOINT DESTRUCTION; JOINT EFFUSION; MONOTHERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNOVITIS; TENOSYNOVITIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; HUMANS; JOINTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84876294007     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2012-202197     Document Type: Article

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