Can quantitative MRI be used in the clinical setting to quantify the impact of intra-articular glucocorticoid injection on synovial disease activity in juvenile idiopathic arthritis?

• Main Authors: Joshua L. Bennett (Author), Amanda Wood (Author), Nicola Smith (Author), Ravi Mistry (Author), Karen Allen (Author), Sharmila Jandial (Author), John D. Tuckett (Author), S. Claire Gowdy (Author), Helen E. Foster (Author), Flora McErlane (Author), Kieren G. Hollingsworth (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), the most common chronic rheumatic disease of childhood, is characterised by synovitis. Clinical assessments of synovitis are imperfect, relying on composite and indirect measures of disease activity including clinician-reported measures, patie...