Sensitive imaging tools are needed to assess disease activity, to detect joint damage, to monitor treatment response, and to predict disease outcome in rheumatic diseases. For its advantages in costs and risks, and for its validity, reproducibility, and sensitivity to change, ultrasonography (US) is playing an increasing role in the evaluation of joints in patients with inflammatory and degenerative disorders. US has demonstrated to be sensitive in the detection of early bone erosions as well as in the depiction of soft-tissue damage. © 2011 Elsevier Inc.

The Role of Ultrasound in Rheumatology / Iagnocco, Annamaria; Ceccarelli, Fulvia; Perricone, Carlo; Valesini, Guido. - In: SEMINARS IN ULTRASOUND CT AND MRI. - ISSN 0887-2171. - STAMPA. - 32:2(2011), pp. 66-73. [10.1053/j.sult.2010.11.004]

The Role of Ultrasound in Rheumatology

IAGNOCCO, Annamaria;CECCARELLI, FULVIA;PERRICONE, CARLO;VALESINI, Guido
2011

Abstract

Sensitive imaging tools are needed to assess disease activity, to detect joint damage, to monitor treatment response, and to predict disease outcome in rheumatic diseases. For its advantages in costs and risks, and for its validity, reproducibility, and sensitivity to change, ultrasonography (US) is playing an increasing role in the evaluation of joints in patients with inflammatory and degenerative disorders. US has demonstrated to be sensitive in the detection of early bone erosions as well as in the depiction of soft-tissue damage. © 2011 Elsevier Inc.
2011
high-resolution ultrasonography; follow-up; grey-scale; finger joints; inflammatory activity; power doppler sonography; deposition disease; necrosis factor therapy; clinical examination; conventional radiography
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The Role of Ultrasound in Rheumatology / Iagnocco, Annamaria; Ceccarelli, Fulvia; Perricone, Carlo; Valesini, Guido. - In: SEMINARS IN ULTRASOUND CT AND MRI. - ISSN 0887-2171. - STAMPA. - 32:2(2011), pp. 66-73. [10.1053/j.sult.2010.11.004]
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