Bone marrow lesions detected by specific combination of MRI sequences are associated with severity of osteochondral degeneration

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Muratovic, Dzenita ^a,b   Cicuttini, Flavia ^c   Wluka, Anita ^c   Findlay, David ^a   Wang, Yuanyuan ^c   Otto, Sophia ^d   Taylor, David ^e   Humphries, Julia ^b   Lee, Yearin ^b   Labrinidis, Agatha ^a   Williams, Ruth ^a   Kuliwaba, Julia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Bone and Joint Research Laboratory   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SA Pathology   (Australia)

^e ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bone marrow lesion; Cartilage; Knee osteoarthritis; MRI; Osteochondral unit; Subchondral bone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW DISEASE; BONE MARROW LESION; BONE TURNOVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHENOTYPE; TISSUE LEVEL; AGED; BONE MARROW; KNEE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE MARROW; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE;

EID: 84959164613     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13075-016-0953-x     Document Type: Article

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