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Choose wisely: imaging for diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis.

Torsten DiekhoffIris EshedFelix RadnyKatharina ZiegelerFabian ProftJuliane GreeseDominik DeppeRobert BiesenKay Geert HermannDenis Poddubnyy
Published 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.
Keyphrases
  • contrast enhanced
  • high resolution
  • cross sectional
  • magnetic resonance
  • computed tomography
  • magnetic resonance imaging
  • disease activity
  • rheumatoid arthritis
  • positron emission tomography