Quantitative and semiquantitative bone erosion assessment on high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography in rheumatoid arthritis

• Main Authors: Waraporn Srikhum, Warapat Virayavanich, Andrew J. Burghardt, Andrew Yu, Thomas M. Link, John B. Imboden, Xiaojuan Li
• Other Authors: University of California, San Francisco
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/31937
• Institution: Mahidol University

Objective. To develop novel quantitative and semiquantitative bone erosion measures at metacarpophalangeal (MCP) and wrist joints in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT), and to correlate these measurements with disease d...