Ultrasound Assessment of Psoriatic Arthritis Patients With Clinically Normal Nails and Evaluation of its Correlation With the Disease Activity: A Case-Control Study.
Ines MahmoudLeila RouachedSafa RahmouniSiwar Ben DhiaAicha Ben TekayaSelma BoudenRawdha TekayaWafa HamdiOlfa SaidaneLeila AbdelmoulaPublished in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2024)
Nail bed and adjacent skin US morphological changes were contributive to distinguish psoriatic from healthy nails. Adjacent skin thickness measurement was positively correlated with TJC and ESR, suggesting that it could be used as an indicator of disease activity in PsA.
Keyphrases
- disease activity
- rheumatoid arthritis
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- rheumatoid arthritis patients
- ankylosing spondylitis
- soft tissue
- juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- prostate cancer
- wound healing
- magnetic resonance imaging
- optical coherence tomography
- radical prostatectomy
- computed tomography
- clinical evaluation
- contrast enhanced ultrasound