Exploration of Musculoskeletal Diseases

From: Relationship between tendon elastography and clinical and ultrasound enthesitis scores in patients with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis

Table 3

Results of the Spearman’s Rho tests of clinical and ultrasonographic scores and the shear-wave elastography assessment of the patellar and Achilles’ tendon

Region assessed	Patients		PsoA group		Pso group
Region assessed	MASEI	SPARCC	MASEI	SPARCC	MASEI	SPARCC
Patellar tendon stiffness	–0.851^a	–0.860^a	–0.813^a	–0.843^a	–0.741^a	–0.245^b
Achilles’ tendon stiffness	–0.950^a	–0.780^a	–0.941^a	–0.777^a	–0.746^a	–0.177^b

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^a P < 0.001; ^b no statistically significant