TY - JOUR T1 - Clarification of the Modified Radiographic Damage Scoring Method for Gout JF - The Journal of Rheumatology JO - J Rheumatol SP - 874 LP - 874 DO - 10.3899/jrheum.111163 VL - 39 IS - 4 AU - NICOLA DALBETH AU - FIONA M. McQUEEN Y1 - 2012/04/01 UR - http://www.jrheum.org/content/39/4/874.1.abstract N2 - To the Editor:We were very interested in the recent paper by Choe and colleagues examining the relationship between bone damage and inflammatory cytokines in gout1. The authors stated that radiographic damage in the feet was scored according to the modified Sharp-van der Heijde (SvdH) method, as described by our group. However, the authors used … Address correspondence to Dr. N. Dalbeth, Bone Research Group, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, 85 Park Road, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand. E-mail: n.dalbeth{at}auckland.ac.nz. ER -