Relevance of grade 1 gray-scale ultrasound findings in wrists and small joints to the assessment of subclinical synovitis in rheumatoid arthritis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1694-1701

  Witt, Matthias ^a   Mueller, Felix ^a   Nigg, Axel ^a   Reindl, Christiane ^a   Leipe, Jan ^a   Proft, Fabian ^a   Stein, Nicola ^a   Hammitzsch, Ariane ^a   Mayer, Stefan ^a   Dechant, Claudia ^a   Schulze Koops, Hendrik ^a   Grunke, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; JOINT SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVITIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WRIST RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HAND JOINTS; HUMANS; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNOVITIS; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 84879878406     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.37954     Document Type: Article

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