Flexor tenosynovitis was found in 17 patients (51.5%) on US compared with 16 (48.4%) of 33 patients on clinical examination. The intra-reader reliability of reading both the US and clinical ...

Tenosynovitis is widely accepted to be common in RA and postulated to be the first manifestation of RA, [1] but its true prevalence in early disease and in particular the hand has not been firmly ...