Delle Sedie Andrea, Riente Lucrezia
Rheumatology Unit, University of Pisa, Italy.
Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2015 Sep-Oct;33(5 Suppl 93):S60-5. Epub 2015 Oct 15.
Ultrasound (US) is a valuable imaging technique for detection and characterisation of the inflammatory process in arthritides. US has widely been applied to psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in both clinical and research fields, especially focusing on enthesitis. US has proven to be useful to establish a diagnosis of PsA, to recognise subclinical involvement, (such as enthesis abnormalities in patients with PsA, and in patients with only clinically apparent skin psoriasis despite the absence of clinical symptoms of arthritis), to estimate disease activity, and to allow therapy monitoring showing structural and inflammatory changes (not only in joints and tendons, but also in domains not assessed in usual rheumatology care, such as the skin and nails).
超声（US）是一种用于检测和表征关节炎炎症过程的重要成像技术。超声已广泛应用于银屑病关节炎（PsA）的临床和研究领域，尤其侧重于附着点炎。事实证明，超声有助于PsA的诊断，识别亚临床受累情况（如PsA患者以及仅患有临床明显皮肤银屑病但无关节炎临床症状患者的附着点异常），评估疾病活动度，并用于监测治疗过程中显示出的结构和炎症变化（不仅在关节和肌腱中，还包括在常规风湿病护理中未评估的部位，如皮肤和指甲）。
