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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1936;18:297-300.
© 1936 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

ROENTGENOGRAPHIC FEATURES OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

ALBERT B. FERGUSON M.D.1

1 Director of Roentgenology, New York Orthopaedic Dispensary and Hospital

Roentgenograms for the study of rheumatoid arthritis should display the soft-tissue shadows as clearly as the bone shadows.

The hands, feet, knees, and lumbar spine should be included in the examination.

The roentgenographic features most useful in the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis are systemic decalcification of the bones, fusiform effusion symmetrically centered on the joints (particularly the joints of the phalanges), and punched-out areas of atrophic loss of bone substance at the junction of cartilage and bone.


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