Abstracts tagged "arthritis management and ultrasonography"

Abstract Number: 578 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Ultrasonographic Findings and Inter-Observer Reliability In Danish Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus – a Comparison With Clinical Examination Of Wrist and Hand Joints
Lene Dreyer¹, Søren Jacobsen², Lars Juul³ and Lene Terslev⁴, ¹Internal Medicine - Rheumatology Section, Copenhagen University Hospital at Gentofte, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²Department of Rheumatology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³Department of Rheumatology, Copenhagen University Hospital at Gentofte, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁴Copenhagen University Hospital at Glostrup, Copenhagen, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) frequently encounter problems of musculoskeletal origin including arthralgia, tenosynovitis and arthritis in varying degrees of severity. Some patients…