Increasing trend of radiographic features of knee osteoarthritis in rheumatoid arthritis patients before total knee arthroplasty

Abstract To investigate the trend and factors related to the occurrence of osteoarthritis (OA)-like features on knee radiographs of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in the recent decades. To classify antero-posterior knee radiographs into ‘RA’ and ‘OA-like...

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Main Authors: Ryutaro Takeda, Takumi Matsumoto, Yuji Maenohara, Yasunori Omata, Hiroshi Inui, Yuichi Nagase, Takuji Nishikawa, Sakae Tanaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14440-2