Novel System Reliable for Scoring MRIs in Juvenile Arthritis
December 23, 2010|Hospitalist News (Archived)
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Major Finding: A novel system for scoring MRIs in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis showed significant, moderate correlation (0.47) with the Juvenile Arthritis Damage Index Articular score (P less than .0001), as well as a moderate (0.55) significant correlation with the Sharp/van der Heijde score for reading radiographs (P less than .0001).
Data Source: A total of 66 consecutively recruited patients with JIA from a single center in Italy.
Disclosures: The authors stated that they had no competing interests in relation to this study.
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The authors stated that they had no competing interests in relation to this study.
