Tanya L. Sapundzhieva‡, Rositsa Karalilova‡, Anastas Batalov‡Corresponding author: Tanya L. Sapundzhieva ( taniasapundjieva@abv.bg ) © Tanya L. Sapundzhieva, Rositsa Karalilova, Anastas Batalov. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Sapundzhieva TL, Karalilova R, Batalov A (2020) Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Rheumatology - New Horizons. Folia Medica 62(1): 7-16. https://doi.org/10.3897/folmed.62.e47772 |  |
Musculoskeletal ultrasound is a non-ionizing, cheap, reproducible, reliable imaging method, well accepted by the patients, that plays an important role in daily rheumatology practice. It can be used to assess joint and periarticular involvement, including tendon, bursae, enthesis, skin thickness, nails, lung and large vessels. Musculoskeletal ultrasound is more sensitive than physical examination, improves the diagnostic process, monitoring of treatment response, the accuracy of joint and soft tissue injections. It has proved its role as an important imaging modality in a number of rheumatic diseases – inflammatory joint diseases, systemic connective tissue diseases, large-vessel vasculitides, and degenerative and metabolic bone diseases.