Grassi W, Filippucci E, Farina A, Salaffi F, Cervini C
Department of Rheumatology, University of Ancona, Italy.
Ann Rheum Dis. 2001 Feb;60(2):98-103. doi: 10.1136/ard.60.2.98.
To demonstrate the diagnostic efficacy of ultrasonography in depicting erosions in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and to compare sonographic and radiographic findings.
Sonographic images were obtained with an AU-4 Idea Esaote Biomedica (Genoa, Italy) equipped with a 13 MHz linear transducer.
The images reported in this essay are representative examples of the ability of ultrasonography to detect and characterise even minimal bone margin changes in rheumatoid arthritis.
Ultrasonography with very high frequency transducers can depict bone erosions in early target areas of bone resorption. However, further studies are needed to validate this technique and to evaluate the relation between sonographic findings and those obtained with other imaging techniques (standard radiology, magnetic resonance).
证明超声检查在描绘类风湿关节炎患者骨侵蚀方面的诊断效能,并比较超声和放射学检查结果。
使用配备13兆赫线性换能器的AU-4 Idea Esaote Biomedica(意大利热那亚)获取超声图像。
本文报告的图像是超声检查在类风湿关节炎中检测和表征甚至微小骨边缘变化能力的代表性实例。
使用非常高频的换能器进行超声检查可以描绘早期骨吸收目标区域的骨侵蚀。然而,需要进一步研究来验证该技术,并评估超声检查结果与其他成像技术(标准放射学、磁共振成像)所获结果之间的关系。