Diagnostic strategy in rheumatology
Keitel, W.
Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete 31(16): 609-614
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-2542 PMID: 997656 Document Number: 99240
Nowadays, rheumatology is primarily understood as arthrology. In special diagnostics at first an articular process is to be ascertained or excluded, the arthralgia is to be separated from the objectifyable arthritic syndrome and this must be more enclosed by simple findings of the anamnesis and the physical examination. The tentative diagnosis which is present after this already in the vast majority of cases must be confirmed by aimed laboratory and X-ray diagnostics. Some guiding principles concerning the X-ray examination, state and perspectives of articular scintigraphy, arthroscopy, thermography and relevant genetic research are reported.