ReviewArthritis research & therapy2011
Imaging modalities in hand osteoarthritis--and perspectives of conventional radiography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasonography.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review of the association between ultrasound-detected features and laboratory inflammatory biomarkers in hand osteoarthritis.Annals of medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Surgery for thumb (trapeziometacarpal joint) osteoarthritis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Phase IIa, placebo-controlled, randomised study of lutikizumab, an anti-interleukin-1α and anti-interleukin-1β dual variable domain immunoglobulin, in patients with erosive hand osteoarthritis.Annals of the rheumatic diseases · 2019Trial
- The stability of pain phenotypes in people with hand osteoarthritis - results from the NOR-HAND study.Osteoarthritis and cartilage open · 2026Article
- Clinical Outcomes of Trapeziometacarpal Arthrodesis with a Mean 3-Year Follow-up.Journal of wrist surgery · 2023Article
- Patterns and natural history of hand pain in individuals with symptomatic hand osteoarthritis in a prospective cohort study: A post-hoc analysis of a randomised controlled trial.Osteoarthritis and cartilage open · 2023Article
- The role of WNT and IL-1 signaling in osteoarthritis: therapeutic implications for platelet-rich plasma therapy.Frontiers in aging · 2023Review
- Associations between radiographic features, clinical features and ultrasound of thumb-base osteoarthritis: A secondary analysis of the COMBO study.International journal of rheumatic diseases · 2022Article
- Ultrasound Findings were Associated With Radiographic Changes, But Not Clinical and Functional Outcomes in Hand Osteoarthritis.Journal of rheumatic diseases · 2021Article
- [Usefulness and reliabitlity of musculoskeletal point of care ultrasound in family practice (2): Muscle injuries, osteoarthritis, rheumatological diseases and eco-guided procedures].Atencion primaria · 2019Review
- Guidelines for the conduct of pharmacological clinical trials in hand osteoarthritis: Consensus of a Working Group of the European Society on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases (ESCEO).Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism · 2018Review
- The associations between radiographic hand osteoarthritis definitions and hand pain: data from the osteoarthritis initiative.Rheumatology international · 2018Article
- Age related prevalence of hand osteoarthritis diagnosed by photography (HOASCORE).BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2017Article
- A recently developed MRI scoring system for hand osteoarthritis: its application in a clinical setting.Clinical rheumatology · 2016Article
- Tomosynthesis can facilitate accurate measurement of joint space width under the condition of the oblique incidence of X-rays in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.The British journal of radiology · 2016Article
- Progress in imaging in rheumatology.Nature reviews. Rheumatology · 2014Review
- High-resolution ultrasonography and 3.0 T magnetic resonance imaging in erosive and nodal hand osteoarthritis: high frequency of erosions in nodal osteoarthritis.Clinical rheumatology · 2013Article
- The comparison of efficacy of different imaging techniques (conventional radiography, ultrasonography, magnetic resonance) in assessment of wrist joints and metacarpophalangeal joints in patients with psoriatic arthritis.Polish journal of radiology · 2013Article
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Abstract
Hand osteoarthritis (OA) is very frequent in middle-aged and older women and men in the general population. Currently, owing to high feasibility and low costs, conventional radiography (CR) is the method of choice for evaluation of hand OA. CR provides a two-dimensional picture of bony changes, such as osteophytes, erosions, cysts, and sclerosis, and joint space narrowing as an indirect measure of cartilage loss. There are several standardized scoring methods for evaluation of radiographic hand OA. The scales have shown similar reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change, and no conclusion about the preferred instrument has been drawn. Patients with hand OA may experience pain, stiffness, and physical disability, but the associations between radiographic findings and clinical symptoms are weak to moderate and vary across studies. OA is, indeed, recognized to involve the whole joint, and modern imaging techniques such as ultrasound (US) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could be valuable tools for better evaluation of hand OA. Standardized scoring methods have been proposed for both modalities. Several studies have examined the validity of US features in hand OA, whereas knowledge of the validity of MRI is more limited. However, both synovitis (detected by either US or MRI) and MRI-defined bone marrow lesions have been associated with pain, indicating that treatment of inflammation is important for pain management in hand OA. Both US and MRI have shown better sensitivity than CR in detection of erosions, and this may indicate that erosive hand OA may be more common than previously thought.
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