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Table 2 Effect on synovial hypertrophy 1 week and 4 weeks after US-guided steroid injection

From: Ultrasonography and colour Doppler in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: Diagnosis and follow-up of ultrasound-guided steroid injection in the wrist

Normalization Compartment

Number injected

Result after 1 week Normalization

Result after 4 weeks

  

Yes

No

Yes

No

Radio-carpal joints

12

6/12 (50%)

6/12 (50%)

10/12 (83%)

2/12 (17%)

Mid-carpal joints

5

2/5 (40%)

3/5 (60%)

4/5 (80%)

1/5 (20%)

Tendon sheaths

4

4/4 (100%)

0/4 (0%)

4/4 (100%)

0/4 (0%)

All compartments

21

12/21 (57%)

9/21 (43%)

18/21 (86%)

3/21 (14%)