Rasmia Mohamed Hassan Mostafa Algohary

Ultrasound and power doppler ultrasonography of knee joint in patients with hepatitis C virus induced arthritis / فحص سونار ودبلر على مفصل الركبة فى حالات التهاب المفاصل المصاحب للفيروس الكبدى الوبائى سى Rasmia Mohamed Hassan Mostafa Algohary ; Supervised Gaafar Mohamed Ragab , Omar Moawia Osman , Mohamed Ahmed Fouad Elghobary - Cairo : Rasmia Mohamed Hassan Mostafa Algohary , 2010 - 104P.: charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine

We concluded that the combination of grey scale US and PDS could be used as a sensitive and reliable non - invasive and widely available method complementary to standard clinical assessment and laboratory measures for evaluating many rheumatic diseases in daily practice . We found no specific ultrasonic feature specific for HCV related knee arthritis however knee effusion is a predominant feature and the hypertrophied synovium not frequently found



HCV Power doppler ultrasonography (PDU) Ultrasound (US)