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. 2020 Oct 1;59(10):3106-3108.
doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keaa082.

The value of the squeeze test for detection of subclinical synovitis in patients with arthralgia suspicious for progression to RA

Fenne Wouters  1 , Ellis Niemantsverdriet  1 , Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil  1   2
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The value of the squeeze test for detection of subclinical synovitis in patients with arthralgia suspicious for progression to RA

Fenne Wouters et al. Rheumatology (Oxford). .
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Fig. 1
Squeeze test and MRI-detected synovitis in (A) MCP and MTP joints, (B) MCP joints and (C) MTP joints Subclinical inflammation was considered present if the inflammatory feature was uncommon in symptom-free controls, i.e. present in <5% of symptom-free controls at the same location and in the same age category (<40, 40–59, ≥60). Error bars represent 95% CI. aAdjusted for tenosynovitis. bAdjusted for tenosynovitis, age and gender. OR: odds ratio.
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