Hoving et al stated that in hand joints small amount of fluid is best visualized from volar side with fingers in gentle flexion. [27] In a recent scoring system, Backhaus found volar synovitis ...
Separately, we added the semiquantitative grades for volar and dorsal side, resulting in Volar ES (VES) and Dorsal ES (DES) of each patient. We used SPSS 16.0 package; for quantitative parameters ...