Objectives To correlate the level of fibrocytes in peripheral blood, synovial tissue and vitro culture rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with changes disease activity, imaging pulmonary function. Methods Twenty patients early RA (ERA) 20 long-standing (LRA) were enrolled a 6-month prospective study. Sixteen undergoing wrist arthroscopy healthy controls. Patients underwent function tests, ultrasound ult...

MRI is a medical imaging modality that works by utilizing hydrogen atoms in the body. Imaging does not use ionizing radiation but uses an external magnetic field. able to provide good soft tissue contrast based on nature of tissue. The wrist joint complex consisting several bones and joints. consist including distal radius ulna, 8 carpal bones, proximal part consists 5 metacarpal bones. This ty...

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a commonly encountered entity. The tunnel is a narrow space filled with nerves and tendons. Numbness and paraesthesia over the median nerve territory is classical of nerve compression. Pregnancy, hypothyroidism and diabetes are frequent associations, but sometimes no cause can be ascertained. Local pathologies like ganglia and other soft tissue tumors occasionally resu...

PURPOSE To compare the image quality of modern 3 D and 2 D sequences for dedicated wrist imaging at 3 Tesla (T) MRI. MATERIALS AND METHODS At 3 T MRI, 18 patients (mean age: 36.2 years) with wrist pain and 16 healthy volunteers (mean age: 26.4 years) were examined using 2 D proton density-weighted fat-saturated (PDfs), isotropic 3 D TrueFISP, 3 D MEDIC, and 3 D PDfs SPACE sequences. Image qua...

OBJECTIVES This randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase IIIb study evaluated the impact of abatacept on MRI pathology as a primary outcome in methotrexate (MTX)-refractory patients with rheumatoid arthritis. METHODS Patients received intravenous abatacept (∼10 mg/kg) or placebo, on background MTX, for 4 months, followed by an 8-month open-label extension (OLE; all patients received...

The authors retrospectively compared the diagnostic accuracy of clinical examination and magnetic resonance imaging for intra-articular wrist pathology (triangular fibrocartilage complex, lunotriquetral and scapholunate injuries), using wrist arthroscopy as the gold standard. Sixty-six patients had clinical examination and arthroscopy; 38 of them also had magnetic resonance imaging. The diagnos...

Wrist posture and tendon loading have been shown to increase carpal tunnel pressure, which may result in median nerve compression (Keir et al., 1998). This change in pressure may be due to a change in carpal tunnel volume or the volume of its contents. Thus magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have been used to evaluate parameters such as cross-sectional area (CSA) and the relationship of s...

Singh H, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-222065 Description We are presenting a case of tumoral calcinosis (TC) diagnosed on histopathology with characteristic X-ray, CT and MRI images. We acknowledge that although radiological and pathological descriptions are suggested as diagnostic criteria, mostly the term TC is saved for the condition caused by hereditary metabolic dysfuncti...

Triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) injuries are increasingly recognized as a cause of ulnar-sided wrist pain. Palmer grouped these tears into either traumatic or degenerative, with various subclassifications. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), arthrogram, and arthroscopy are the methods used to establish the diagnosis. Several arthroscopic methods of TFCC repair including outside-in, insid...