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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on September 26, 2006
Rheumatology 2007 46(1):3-5; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kel317
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Ultrasonography in rheumatology: developing its potential in clinical practice and research

G. Meenagh1, E. Filippucci2, D. Kane3, A. Taggart1 and W. Grassi2

1Department of Rheumatology, Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast, UK, 2Cattedra di Reumatologia, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy and 3Department of Rheumatology, The Adelaide and Meath Hospital Dublin, Ireland.

Correspondence to: G. Meenagh, MD, Department of Rheumatology, Musgrave Park Hospital, Stockman's Lane, Belfast BT9 7JB, UK. E-mail: garymeenagh@yahoo.co.uk

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Introduction

There have been a number of major scientific advances in our specialty in recent years and now we are beginning to see the impact of these developments on everyday clinical practice. Biologic therapies may have grabbed all the headlines but ultrasonography (US) has an even greater potential to influence the way we assess and treat our patients. In <10 yrs, it has evolved from a diagnostic tool used in a small minority of patients to a virtually indispensable clinical instrument which has been likened to the ‘rheumatologist's stethoscope’. Research in US has focused mainly on the assessment of regional pain syndromes, the early detection of structural damage in inflammatory arthritis, and US guidance of joint and soft tissue injections [1–3].

US has a number of properties which make it particularly attractive as an imaging tool. These include the lack of radiation exposure, the ability to assess the joints . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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