Power Doppler sonography: synovial tissue assessment in RA

Power Doppler sonography in the assessment of synovial tissue of the knee joint in rheumatoid arthritis: a preliminary experience.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the intra-articular vascularisation of the synovial pannus in the knee of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with power Doppler ultrasonography (PDS) and an echo contrast agent and correlate the area under the time-intensity curves with the clinical findings and laboratory measures of disease activity. METHOD Forty two patients with RA (31 women, 11 men) with his...

EXTENDED REPORT Power Doppler sonography in the assessment of synovial tissue of the knee joint in rheumatoid arthritis: a preliminary experience

Objective: To investigate the intra-articular vascularisation of the synovial pannus in the knee of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with power Doppler ultrasonography (PDS) and an echo contrast agent and correlate the area under the time-intensity curves with the clinical findings and laboratory measures of disease activity. Method: Forty two patients with RA (31 women, 11 men) with his...

Is power Doppler sonography the new frontier in therapy monitoring?

Assessment of synovial vascularization by power Doppler ultrasonography in TMJ internal derangements treated arthroscopically.

Our aim was to evaluate the effect of arthroscopic lysis and lavage of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) on synovial microvascularisation by comparing preoperative and postoperative grades measured by power Doppler ultrasonography (US). We studied 22 patients with hypomobility, clicking, and pain in the TMJ. Power Doppler US were obtained preoperatively to assess the presence of synovial microv...

Testicular plasmacytoma: appearance on gray-scale and power Doppler sonography.

A case of testicular plasmacytoma, a very rare neoplasm, is presented. The gray-scale and power Doppler sonographic findings are illustrated. The lesion appeared as a hypoechoic, intratesticular mass that was markedly hypervascular. When marked hypervascularity is present in a testicular mass in a patient unlikely to have orchitis on clinical grounds, plasmacytoma should be considered in the di...