Dual-energy CT for the diagnosis of gout: An accuracy and diagnostic yield study

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1072-1077

  Bongartz, Tim ^a   Glazebrook, Katrina N ^a   Kavros, Steven J ^a   Murthy, Naveen S ^a   Merry, Stephen P ^a   Franz, Walter B ^a   Michet, Clement J ^a   Veetil, Barath M Akkara ^a   Davis, John M ^a   Mason, Thomas G ^a   Warrington, Kenneth J ^a   Ytterberg, Steven R ^a   Matteson, Eric L ^a   Crowson, Cynthia S ^a   Leng, Shuai ^a   McCollough, Cynthia H ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URATE; URIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GOUT; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALE; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVIAL FLUID; AGED; ARTHRITIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELBOW; FOOT; HAND JOINT; KNEE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; ELBOW JOINT; FEMALE; FOOT JOINTS; GOUT; HAND JOINTS; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URIC ACID;

EID: 84934956973     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-205095     Document Type: Article

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