Ann Rheum Dis 1998;57:268-271 ( May )

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Ultrasonography in rheumatology: an evolving technique

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	Introduction

Ultrasonography (US) has proved to be an excellent technique for a quick, efficient, and accurate evaluation of soft tissues involvement in rheumatic diseases. US is a powerful tool to look around or inside joints, or both, tendons, muscles, bursae, and nerves. Skin, salivary glands, parathyroids, and small and large vessels are other interesting targets of US in rheumatology. The main advantages of US, with respect to other imaging techniques, include absence of radiation, good visualisation of the joint cavity, low running costs, multiplanar imaging capability, quantification of soft tissue abnormalities. Moreover, US is rapidly performed and readily accepted by patients.

US is not a new technique, but it has undergone relatively little clinical evaluation in rheumatology (compared with other imaging techniques) because of the paucity of sonographic units in rheumatology departments and of rheumatologists capable of performing a sonographic examination.

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