Finger Joint Cartilage Evaluated by Semiquantitative Ultrasound Score in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis

• Published in: Arthritis care & research (2010) Vol. 73; no. 2; pp. 173 - 179
• Main Authors: Ogura, Takehisa, Hirata, Ayako, Hayashi, Norihide, Imaizumi, Chihiro, Ito, Hideki, Takenaka, Sayaka, Inoue, Yuki, Takakura, Yuto, Mizushina, Kennosuke, Katagiri, Takaharu, Kameda, Hideto
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.02.2021; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Aged; Arthritis, Rheumatoid - diagnostic imaging; Brief Report; Cartilage; Cartilage, Articular - diagnostic imaging; Case-Control Studies; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Finger Joint - diagnostic imaging; Humans; Joint diseases; Male; Metacarpophalangeal Joint - diagnostic imaging; Middle Aged; Predictive Value of Tests; Radiography; Remission; Reproducibility of Results; Rheumatoid Arthritis; Severity of Illness Index; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonography; Ultrasound

Objective Joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) includes both bone and cartilage lesions. Since joint space narrowing (JSN) is not a direct evaluation of cartilage using radiography, we aimed to examine the validity of ultrasound (US) cartilage evaluation using a semiquantitative method in...