Abstracts tagged "Imaging and ultrasound"

Abstract Number: 157 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Synovitis of Sternoclavicular and Peripheral Joints Can be Detected By Ultrasound in Patients with SAPHO Syndrome
Masataka Umeda¹, Shinya Kawashiri^1,2, Ayako Nishino³, Hideki Nakamura¹ and Atsushi Kawakami⁴, ¹Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, ²Department of Community Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, ³Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki Universit, Nagasaki, Japan, ⁴Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki City, Japan
Background/Purpose: Synovitis-acne-pustulosis-hyperostosis-osteitis (SAPHO) syndrome is characterized by multiple osteoarticular inflammation and dermatologic disorders such as palmoplantar pustulosis. Although the single available study evaluated enthesitis by…