Role of diffusion-weighted MRI in the detection of early active sacroiliitis

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 980-986

  Bozgeyik, Zulkif ^a   Ozgocmen, Salih ^a   Kocakoc, Ercan ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ankylosing spondylitis; Diffusion weighted imaging; MRI; Sacroiliitis; Spondylarthritis; Spondyloarthritis

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SACROILIITIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SACROILIAC JOINT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 53249127367     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3865     Document Type: Article

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