Rheumatology: Current Research
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Victor Blanchette

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• Research Article
  Sonography for Assessment of Elbows in Hemophilic Children: A Systematic Protocol
  Author(s): Frederico Xavier, Ningning Zhang, Arun Mohanta, Pamela Hilliard, Carina Man, Debra Drossmann, Ann Marie Stain, Victor Blanchette and Andrea S DoriaFrederico Xavier, Ningning Zhang, Arun Mohanta, Pamela Hilliard, Carina Man, Debra Drossmann, Ann Marie Stain, Victor Blanchette and Andrea S Doria
  
  Evaluation of joints using sensitive non-invasive tools is important for diagnosis and follow-up of hemophilic patients who are continuously at risk of development and/or progression of arthropathy. Because conventional radiography is inadequate for assessing early arthropathic changes in hemophilic patients, there has been an increasing interest in the development of systematic protocols and scoring systems using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound for evaluating hemophilic arthropathy in recent years. Given some advantages of ultrasound over MRI for this purpose, namely easier access, lower costs and no need for sedation in younger patients, detailed sonographic protocols have recently been proposed for assessment of large joints, most notably knees and ankles, which are most frequently affected by hemophilic arthropathy. Due to the challenges that the elbow joint offers.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-1149.S2-004

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