Ultrasound Scoring of Joint Synovitis: Objective Quantification of Articular Inflammation

by Veena Ranganath, Gurjit Kaeley, Ami Ben-Artzi, et al.

Book Overview

A common manifestation of many autoimmune diseases is joint inflammation. The degree of inflammation of the joints is often used as a metric of disease activity. Assessing disease activity has diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic implications. Inflammation of the joints is often used as a proxy for inflammation in other tissue, and assessing this inflammation has implications for the health of numerous organs in in the body. Currently, physicians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030432742
• ISBN13: 9783030432744
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 213 Pages