Ultrasound (US) has great potential as an outcome in rheumatoid arthritis trials for detecting
bone erosions, synovitis, tendon disease, and enthesopathy. It has a number of distinct …

A taskforce comprised of an expert group of 21 rheumatologists, radiologists and methodologists
from 11 countries developed evidence-based recommendations on the use of imaging …

Objectives To develop a consensus-based ultrasound (US) definition and quantification
system for synovitis in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods A multistep, iterative approach was …

Objective To produce consensus-based scoring systems for ultrasound (US) tenosynovitis
and to assess the intraobserver and interobserver reliability of these scoring systems in …

Objective: To compare high-resolution ultrasound (HRUS) with conventional radiography in
the detection of erosions in the first metatarsophalangeal joints (1st MTPJs) of patients with …

OBJECTIVE: The main aim of the present study was to determine the sensitivity, specificity
and accuracy of ultrasonography (US) in detecting monosodium urate and calcium …

Tendons are frequently affected by a wide range of inflammatory, degenerative, and traumatic
processes. Their involvement is often oligosymptomatic and underevaluated, because …

Objective: To assess the interobserver reliability of the main periarticular and intra-articular
ultrasonographic pathologies and to establish the principal disagreements on scanning …

OBJECTIVES: To date, high-resolution ultrasound (US) has not been fully exploited in the
field of crystalline arthropathy. Both gout and calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) …

Background In 2001, the European League Against Rheumatism developed and disseminated
the first guidelines for musculoskeletal (MS) ultrasound (US) in rheumatology. Fifteen …