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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 14.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Rheum Dis. 2011 Sep 8;70(11):1884–1886. doi: 10.1136/ard.2011.155119

Table 1.

Maximum grade of tibiofemoral joint space narrowing on PA view vs maximal and individual WORMS reading on 10 tibiofemoral subregions

Max TF JSN=0 on PA view (N=28)
Max TF JSN≥1 on PA view (N=161)
WORMS cartilage morphology score
WORMS cartilage morphology score
0 1 2 2.5 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 2.5 3 4 5 6
Maximum cartilage score of 10 subregions (%) 8 (28.6) 0 (0.00) 5 (17.9) 2 (7.1) 10 (35.7) 1 (3.6) 2 (7.1) 0 (0.00) 11 (6.9) 0 (0.00) 12 (7.5) 1 (0.6) 64 (39.8) 24 (14.9) 46 (28.6) 3 (1.9)

Framingham Osteoarthritis Study—limited to knees scored Kellgren and Lawrence grade 2.

JSN, joint space narrowing; PA,; TF, tibiofemoral; WORMS, whole-organ magnetic resonance imaging score.