ReviewSkeletal radiology2023
The ultrasound assessment of osteoarthritis: the current status.
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- Semiquantitative ultrasonographic grading of femoral cartilage: comparison among three knee groups with different clinical statuses.Clinical rheumatology · 2026Article
- Prevalence of knee radiographic and symptomatic osteoarthritis and ultrasound features across sex and body mass index groups: The Johnston County Health Study.Osteoarthritis and cartilage · 2026Article
- Diagnostic performance of ultrasound in identifying early knee osteoarthritis features in a 33-year-old birth cohort.Osteoarthritis and cartilage open · 2026Article
- Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Reliability in Knee Osteoarthritis: A Pilot Study of Cartilage Thickness, Osteophytes and Weight-Bearing Meniscal Extrusion.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- Reply.Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis: A comparative review of pathophysiology, diagnosis and evolving management.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2026Review
- Correlation study of infrapatellar fat pad EI in assessing clinical symptoms of knee osteoarthritis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Frequency and mutual associations of knee osteoarthritis features on ultrasound imaging in recent-onset symptomatic knee osteoarthritis patients: A cross-sectional analysis in a convenience sample of Dutch patients.Osteoarthritis and cartilage open · 2026Article
- Acoustic Emission Biomarkers for the Detection and Monitoring of Early Knee Osteoarthritis: Protocol for a Prospective, Single-Center, Exploratory Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Diagnostic Performance of Ultrasound to Evaluate Mild Hip Osteoarthritis: Comparison With Radiography and MRI.Journal of clinical ultrasound : JCU · 2026Article
- Ultrasound-Based Knee Osteoarthritis Severity Assessment and Its Association With Kellgren-Lawrence Grading.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2026Observational
- Associations of medial collateral ligament and cartilage thickness with clinical outcomes in medial knee osteoarthritis: a cross-sectional study.Clinical rheumatology · 2026Article
- Higher Prevalence of Sarcopenia in Knee Osteoarthritis and Its Association with Femoral Intercondylar Cartilage Thickness and Functional Outcomes.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Patterns of Shared Variation in Knee Ultrasound for Osteoarthritis: A Machine Learning Approach.Osteoarthritis imaging · 2025Article
- Ultrasound findings in patients with knee osteoarthritis: Relationships with clinical characteristics, radiographic findings and generalized osteoarthritis.Osteoarthritis and cartilage open · 2025Article
- Associations and Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasound Features in Knee Osteoarthritis: Cross-Sectional Results From a Large Community-Based Cohort.Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Ultrasound Phenotype-Based Approach to Treatment Choice in Osteoarthritis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Ultrasonography as an Early Evaluation Tool for Posttraumatic Osteoarthritis in Wistar Rats (Rattus norvegicus).Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2025Article
- Advancing osteoarthritis research: the role of AI in clinical, imaging and omics fields.Bone research · 2025Review
- An ultrasound working table as diagnostic tool of temporomandibular joint inflammation.Journal of ultrasound · 2025Article
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Abstract
Traditionally, osteoarthritis (OA) is diagnosed with the clinical examination supplemented by the conventional radiography (CR). In the research literature, the role of ultrasound (US) imaging in the diagnostics of OA has risen steadily during the last two decades. US imaging is cheap and globally widely available often already in primary healthcare. Here, we reviewed the most essential US literature focusing on OA diagnostics and progression prediction using the various search engines. Starting from the year 2000, our search provided 1 445 journal articles. After reviewing the abstracts, 89 articles were finally included. Most of the reviewed articles focused on the imaging of knee and hand OA, whereas only a minority dealt with the imaging of hip, ankle, midfoot, acromioclavicular, and temporomandibular joints. Overall, during the last 20 years, the use of US imaging for OA assessment has increased in the scientific literature. In knee and hand joints, US imaging has been reported to be a promising tool to evaluate OA changes. Furthermore, the reproducibility of US as well as its association to MRI findings are excellent. Importantly, US seems to even outperform CR in certain aspects, such as detection of osteophytes, joint inflammation, meniscus protrusion, and localized cartilage damage (especially at the medial femoral condyle and sulcus area). Based on the reviewed literature, US can be truly considered as a complementary tool to CR in the clinical setup for OA diagnostics. New technical developments may even enhance the diagnostic value of the US in the future.
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