Diagnosis of rheumatic disease. 1. Radiographs
Bluestone, R.
Postgraduate Medicine 65(3): 64-73
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0032-5481 PMID: 310998 Document Number: 144770
Radiographs are a clinician's most valuable tool in differential diagnosis of rheumatic disease and in assessment of its severity. The patterns of joint involvement and the specific bony changes characteristic of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Reiter's syndrome and psoriatic arthritis, gout, and systemic lupus erythematosus are discussed here.
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