Application of high frequency color Doppler ultrasound in the monitoring of rheumatoid arthritis treatment

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1807-1812

  Zheng, Guimin ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Jia, Xiuchuan ^a   Li, Fang ^a   Yan, Yonglong ^a   Yu, Zhibo ^a   Li, L ^a   Wei, Qun ^a   Zhang, Fengxiao ^a  

^a The People Hospital of Hebei Province   (China)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasound; High frequency ultrasound; Metacarpophalangeal joint; Rheumatoid arthritis; Score of disease activity; Wrist joint

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ETANERCEPT; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DAS28; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; JOINT CAVITY; JOINT SYNOVIAL THICKNESS; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MONITORING; NEPHELOMETRY; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SYNOVIUM; THICKNESS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WRIST;

EID: 84908220543     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2014.2001     Document Type: Article

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