Whole body MRI in spondyloarthritis (SpA): Preliminary results suggest that DWI outperforms STIR for lesion detection.
Frederic E LecouvetNicolas Vander MarenLaurence ColletteNicolas MichouxPerrine TriqueneauxMaria StoenoiuFrederic HoussiauJacques MalghemMarie-Laurence DenisAhmed LarbiAdrien Nzeusseu ToukapPublished in: European radiology (2018)
• DWI is a robust alternative to STIR in WBMRI in SpA. • DWI might be superior in discriminating relevant inflammatory and degenerative changes. • Positive correlations exist between WB MRI, clinical, biological, local MRI data. • Distribution and frequency of abnormal MRI findings in SpA are highlighted.