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Questions discussed in this category

Do you image the spine in addition to the sacroiliac joints when you suspect axial spondyloarthritis?

Can axSpA affect the spine without affecting the sacroiliac joints?

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Do you recommend the use of contrast to identify sacroiliitis on MRI?

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Papers discussed in this category

Rheumatology (Oxford), 2013 Feb 16

Magnetic resonance imaging of the sacroiliac joints in the early detection of spondyloarthritis: no added value of gadolinium compared with short tau inversion recovery sequence.

Ann Rheum Dis, 2005 Jan 13

Assessment of acute spinal inflammation in patients with ankylosing spondylitis by magnetic resonance imaging: a comparison between contrast enhanced T1 and short tau inversion recovery (STIR) sequences.

Ann Rheum Dis, 2016 Jan 14

Defining active sacroiliitis on MRI for classification of axial spondyloarthritis: update by the ASAS MRI working group.

Ann Rheum Dis, 2014 Jan 22

Does spinal MRI add incremental diagnostic value to MRI of the sacroiliac joints alone in patients with non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis?

Ann Rheum Dis, 2012 May 14

Descriptions of spinal MRI lesions and definition of a positive MRI of the spine in axial spondyloarthritis: a consensual approach by the ASAS/OMERACT MRI study group.

Ann Rheum Dis, 2015 Aug 18

Patients with chronic back pain of short duration from the SPACE cohort: which MRI structural lesions in the sacroiliac joints and inflammatory and structural lesions in the spine are most specific for axial spondyloarthritis?

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