[Diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis of knee joints using magnetic resonance imaging]

A combination of clinical, X-Ray and magnetic resonance tomographic studies for 129 knee joints was made in 85 patients with rheumatoid arthritis of knee joints. MRI symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis of knee joints, including fluid accumulation in the articular cavity, degeneration of the articular cartilage, meniscus, ligaments, proliferation of the synovial membrane, destructive changes in osseous epiphysis were defined. Comparative analysis of the X-Ray and MRI imaging findings has shown that MRI has advantages structures of joints in rheumatoid arthritis.