Application progress of musculoskeletal ultrasound in rheumatic immune diseases
Ultrasound imaging technology has a long history of clinical application.With the continuous development and progress of technology,ultrasound imaging has been applied to different fields.Rheumatic immune diseases are mostly systemic diseases with complex etiology,diverse clinical manifestations and difficult diagnosis and treatment,which need more examination methods.At the end of the 20th century,ultrasound imaging technology began to be used in the examination of musculoskeletal system,musculoskeletal ultrasound has been widely used in the diagnosis and treatment of rheumatic immune diseases,and has gradually become a routine auxiliary examination method for rheumatic immune diseases.This paper summarizes the clinical application of musculoskeletal ultrasound in several common rheumatic immune diseases,and briefly summarizes and expands the possible clinical problems,so as to have certain guiding value for clinical practice.