Radiographs and MRI of the Cervical Spine in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Cross-Sectional Retrospective Study.
Mateusz KoteckiPiotr GietkaMagdalena PosadzyIwona Sudoł-SzopińskaPublished in: Journal of clinical medicine (2021)
The cervical spine lesions are still frequent complication of JIA affecting up to 35% of JIA patients. Most of them develop serious complications, such as AAS and ankylosis. Despite advantages of MRI in terms of the imaging of the atlanto-axial region radiography shows superiority in diagnosis of AAS and SAS.
Keyphrases
- juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- end stage renal disease
- magnetic resonance imaging
- contrast enhanced
- disease activity
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- prognostic factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- diffusion weighted imaging
- computed tomography
- photodynamic therapy
- patient reported
- cone beam computed tomography