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See Latest ArticlesUltrasonographic features of the hand and wrist in systemic sclerosis
Rheumatology, 09/04/09
Cuomo G et al. –This study depicts the main sonographic abnormalities of the SSc hand. An unexpectedly high prevalence of joint pathology in SSc without clinically involved hands was found.
Methods- All patients and controls underwent clinical examination, X-ray and ultrasonography (US) evaluations of the hands and wrists
- 45 SSc patients all of whom satisfied the ACR criteria were assessed
- 15 patients with RA
- 15 patients with FM syndrome
- 15 healthy subjects
- 45 controls
- Joint effusion was found in 22 SSc patients
- Synovial proliferation in 19 patients
- Marginal bone erosions in 5 patients
- Joint space narrowing in 8 patients
- Periarticular calcinosis in 12patients
- Osteophytosis in 26 patients
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