Use of ultrasound-guided small joint biopsy to evaluate the histopathologic response to rheumatoid arthritis therapy: Recommendations for application to clinical trials

Arthritis and Rheumatology

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2601-2610

  Humby, Frances ^a   Kelly, Stephen ^a   Hands, Rebecca ^a   Rocher, Vidalba ^a   DiCicco, Maria ^a   Ng, Nora ^a   Zou, Lu ^a   Bugatti, Serena ^b   Manzo, Antonio ^b   Caporali, Roberto ^b   Montecucco, Carlomaurizio ^b   Bombardieri, Michele ^a   Pitzalis, Costantino ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD20 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CERTOLIZUMAB PEGOL; METHOTREXATE; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CD68 ANTIGEN, HUMAN; DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DAS28; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT BIOPSY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RNA EXTRACTION; SYNOVIUM; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULTRASOUND GUIDED SMALL JOINT BIOPSY; VERY ELDERLY; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); ECHOGRAPHY; ELBOW; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE GUIDED BIOPSY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOMARKERS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ELBOW JOINT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE-GUIDED BIOPSY; MACROPHAGES; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; RNA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 84958806664     PISSN: 23265191     EISSN: 23265205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.39235     Document Type: Article

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