Choose wisely: imaging for diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis.
Torsten DiekhoffIris EshedFelix RadnyKatharina ZiegelerFabian ProftJuliane GreeseDominik DeppeRobert BiesenKay Geert HermannDenis PoddubnyyPublished in: Annals of the rheumatic diseases (2021)
XR had inferior diagnostic accuracy and inter-rater reliability compared with cross-sectional imaging. MR alone was similar in diagnostic performance to XR+MR. CT had the best accuracy, strengthening the importance of structural lesions for the differential diagnosis in axSpA.