TY - GEN AU - Dina Abbas Effat AU - Fawkia Mohamed Mursi , AU - Mamdouh Mahfouz Ibrahim , AU - Manal Sedky Abdou , TI - Clinically occult avascular necrosis of the hip in systemic lupus erythematosus / PY - 2005/// CY - Cairo : PB - Dina Abbas Effat , KW - Avascular necrosis KW - Magnetic resonance imaging KW - Systemic lupus Erythematosus N1 - Thesis (PH.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Medicine - Department Of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation; Issued also as CD N2 - 40 SLE patients , without symptoms referable to the hip , and receiving a minimum of 5 mg / day prednisone for 6 months were screened by MRI for avascular necrosis of the hipMedical records were reviewed for serologic and clinical variables that might predict AVNMRI was repeated after 6 monthsThe aim of the work was to study the natural history of asymptomatic AVN of the hip in SLE , to identify clinical and imaging factors that might be associated with it , and to correlate hip involvement to various parameters of disease activity in SLE UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -