Joint-specific prevalence and radiographic pattern of hand osteoarthritis in Korean
โ Scribed by So-Young Bang; Chang-Nam Son; Yoon-Kyoung Sung; Byeong Kyoo Choi; Kyung-Bin Joo; Jae-Bum Jun
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0172-8172
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We developed and evaluated scales for grading the prevalence and progression of the individual radiographic features of osteoarthritis (OA) of the hand. Four equally time-spaced hand radiographs from 50 participants in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, who were followed for at least 20 year
We studied 32 patients with osteoarthritis who had 5x macroradiographs taken of their wrists and hands at 6-month intervals over an 18-month period. The higher magnification and resolution of microfocal radiography permitted the quantitative detection of progressive changes in 4 different features: