Contrast-enhanced dual-energy CT improves diagnosis and guided management of suspected inflammatory arthritis of the hand.

Arthritis is an inflammation of the joints that can cause debilitating joint pain. With over 100 kinds of arthritis and related conditions, understanding the specific type is crucial for effective ...

Arthritis is inflammation of the joints. The symptoms of arthritis include stiffness and joint pain. There are many types of arthritis. The two most common types are osteoarthritis (OA), caused by ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic inflammatory disease that targets synovial joints and can lead to joint destruction. While most total knee and total hip arthroplasty procedures are ...

This injury is also called a sternoclavicular joint dislocation. Symptoms include pain, swelling, and bruising around the collarbone. Treatment usually involves manipulating the collarbone back ...

In this case series, the authors present 5 patients with a clinical history and MRI findings suggestive of primary CNS vasculitis. How to best diagnosis this rare, but devastating disease?

ABSTRACT. Objectives To evaluate the tomographic distance between the sternoclavicular joints and the nearest hilar structures.. Methods Computed tomography images (axial and sagittal slices) in 120 ...

We develop a novel compressed sensing magnetic resonance imaging (CSMRI) algorithm with joint image and patch priors, where the total variation (TV) is adopted for image-level sparse prior and the ...

Objective: To evaluate a low field dedicated extremity MRI unit for detection of bone erosions, synovitis, and bone marrow oedema in wrist and metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joints, with a high field MRI ...

Objective To analyse if predictors of radiographic progression differ between patients treated with or without prednisolone in early rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Radiographs of hands and feet were ...