Assessment of radiological changes in the hands and feet in rheumatoid arthritis. Their correlation with prognosis.
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چکیده
It is well known that a normal hand radiograph is occasionally encountered in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in whom radiographs of the feet show the classical changes of the disease. Being unaware of any description in the literature of the incidence of this state of affairs, we were prompted to undertake a survey of radiographs of the hands and feet in rheumatoid arthritis, with the primary aim of discovering just how common was this finding of a negative hand radiograph in association with a positive foot radiograph. Our secondary aim was to correlate radiological changes in the hands and feet with prognosis.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Annals of the rheumatic diseases
دوره 25 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1966