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Inventi Impact: Biomedical Imaging

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  • Inventi:ebmi/28855/19
    Do Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Identify Synovitis and Tenosynovitis at the Same Joints and Tendons? A Comparative Study in Early Inflammatory Arthritis and Clinically Suspect Arthralgia
    Research 2019 : July - September
    Sarah Ohrndorf, Aleid C Boer, Debbie M Boeters, Robin M ten Brinck, Gerd-R Burmester, Marion C Kortekaas, Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil

    Objective: Ultrasound (US) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are recommended in the diagnostic process\nof rheumatoid arthritis. Research on its comparability in early disease phases is scarce. Therefore, we compared\nsynovitis and tenosynovitis detected by US and MRI on joint/tendon level.\nMethods: Eight hundred forty joints and 700 tendons of 70 consecutive patients, presenting with inflammatory\narthritis or clinically suspect arthralgia, underwent US and MRI of MCP (2â??5), wrist and MTP (1â??5) joints at the\nsame day. Greyscale (GS) and power Doppler (PD) synovitis were scored according to the modified Szkudlarek\nmethod (combining synovial effusion and hypertrophy) and the recently published EULAR-OMERACT method\n(synovial hypertrophy regardless of the presence of effusion) on static images. US-detected tenosynovitis was\nscored according to the OMERACT. MRI scans were scored according to the RAMRIS. Test characteristics were\ncalculated on joint/tendon level with MRI as reference..............

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    Attribution/ CC Compliant Citation: Ohrndorf, Sarah, et al. \"Do musculoskeletal\nultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging identify synovitis and\ntenosynovitis at the same joints and tendons? A comparative study in early\ninflammatory arthritis and clinically suspect arthralgia.\" Arthritis research &\ntherapy 21.1 (2019): 59.; https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-019-1824-z; http://\ncreativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Some formatting elements, header,\nfooter, logos, dates and pagination were modified while adapting this article.
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