Erschienen in:
01.12.2011 | Technical Report
MRI-based volumetric assessment of joint effusion in knee osteoarthritis using proton density-weighted fat-suppressed and T1-weighted contrast-enhanced fat-suppressed sequences
verfasst von:
Samer Habib, Ali Guermazi, Al Ozonoff, Daichi Hayashi, Michel D. Crema, Frank W. Roemer
Erschienen in:
Skeletal Radiology
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Ausgabe 12/2011
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Excerpt
Osteoarthritic joints regularly show evidence of synovial activation even in the early stages of the disease [
1,
2]. Synovial activation in osteoarthritis (OA) is reflected as synovial thickening and joint effusion on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The amount of synovitis appears to correlate with pain and may be a marker of structural change and clinical outcome [
3,
4]. …