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Psoriatic arthritis imaging: a review of scoring methods.

van der Heijde D, Sharp J, Wassenberg S, Gladman DD

Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Maastricht, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, the Netherlands. dhe@sint.azm.nl

Structural damage assessed on conventional radiographs is an important outcome measure in psoriatic arthritis. This article reviews the available scoring methods. A full description of the methods is given as well as information on various aspects of validity.

Published 14 February 2005 in Ann Rheum Dis, 64: ii61-4.
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