The association between meniscal damage of the posterior horns and localized posterior synovitis detected on T1-weighted contrast-enhanced MRI-The MOST study

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 573-581

  Roemer, Frank W ^a,b   Felson, David T ^a   Yang, Tianzhong ^a   Niu, Jingbo ^a   Crema, Michel D ^a   Englund, Martin ^a,c   Nevitt, Michael C ^d   Zhang, Yuqing ^a   Lynch, John A ^d   El Khoury, George Y ^e   Torner, James ^f   Lewis, Cora E ^g   Guermazi, Ali ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^g University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Meniscal damage; Osteoarthritis; Synovitis

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SOFTWARE; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; SYNOVITIS;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENISCI, TIBIAL; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; SYNOVITIS;

EID: 84881244849     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: 1532866X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2012.10.005     Document Type: Article

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