How to perform and analyse synovial biopsies

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 195-207

  Gerlag, Daniëlle M ^a   Tak, Paul P ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Arthroscopy; Digital image analysis; Synovial biomarkers; Synovial biopsy; Synovial tissue; Synovitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; RITUXIMAB; URATE;

ARTHRITIS; ARTHROSCOPIC BIOPSY; ARTHROSCOPIC JOINT LAVAGE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLIND NEEDLE BIOPSY; CELL INFILTRATION; CHONDROMATOSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GOUT; GRANULOMATOSIS; HEMARTHROSIS; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE GUIDED BIOPSY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; JOINT BIOPSY; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; JOINT SWELLING; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LABORATORY TEST; LAVAGE; MACROPHAGE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PLASMA CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; PSEUDOGOUT; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; STAINING; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYNOVIAL TISSUE ANALYSIS; SYNOVIUM; TISSUE CULTURE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84878572244     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: 15321770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2013.03.006     Document Type: Review

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