Magnetic resonance imaging and musculoskeletal ultrasonography detect and characterize covert inflammatory arthropathy in systemic sclerosis patients with arthralgia

Rheumatology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2357-2361

  Chitale, Sarang ^a   Ciapetti, Alessandro ^b   Hodgson, Richard ^c   Grainger, Andrew ^c   O'connor, Philip ^c   Goodson, Nicola J ^a   Thompson, Robert N ^a   Estrach, Cristina ^a   Moots, Robert J ^a   Grassi, Walter ^b   Anderson, Marina E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c CHAPEL ALLERTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Erosions; MRI; MSUS; Synovial inflammation; Synovitis; Systemic sclerosis; Tenosynovitis

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ARTHRALGIA; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; EROSION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MUSCULOSKELETAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVITIS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TENOSYNOVITIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNOVITIS; TENOSYNOVITIS;

EID: 78549267847     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keq268     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Blocka KL, Bassett LW, Furst DE, Clements PJ, Paulus HE. The arthropathy of advanced progressive systemic sclerosis. A radiographic survey. Arthritis Rheum 1981;24:874-84.
2. Sari-Kouzel H, Hutchinson CE, Middleton A et al. Foot problems in patients with systemic sclerosis. Rheumatology 2001;40:410-3.
3. Catoggio LJ, Evison G, Harkness JA, Maddison PJ. The arthropathy of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma); comparison with mixed connective tissue disease. Clin Exp Rheumatol 1983;1:101-12.
4. Farrant JM, O'Connor PJ, Grainger AJ. Advanced imaging in rheumatoid arthritis. Part 1: synovitis. Skeletal Radiol 2007;36:269-79.
5. Terslev L, Torp-Pedersen S, Savnik A et al. Doppler ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging of synovial inflammation of the hand in rheumatoid arthritis: a comparative study. Arthritis Rheum 2003;48:2434-41.
6. Masi AT, Rodnan GP, Medsger TA Jr. Subcommittee for scleroderma criteria of the American Rheumatism Association Diagnostic and therapeutic criteria subcommittee preliminary criteria for the classification of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma). Arthritis and Rheum 1980;23:581-90.
7. LeRoy EC, Black C, Fleischmajer R et al. Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis): classification, subsets and pathogenesis. J Rheumatol 1988;15:202-5.
8. Backhaus M, Burmester GR, Gerber T et al. Guidelines for musculoskeletal ultrasound in rheumatology. Ann Rheum Dis 2001;60:641-9.
9. Wakefield RJ, Balint PV, Szkudlarek M et al. Musculoskeletal ultrasound including definitions for ultrasonographic pathology. J Rheumatol 2005;32: 2485-7.
10. Scheel AK, Hermann KG, Kahler E et al. A novel ultrasonographic synovitis scoring system suitable for analyzing finger joint inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 2005;52:733-43.
11. Ostergaard M, Peterfy C, Conaghan P et al. Omeract rheumatoid arthritis magnetic resonance imaging studies. Core set of MRI acquisitions, joint pathology definitions, and the omeract RA-MRI scoring system. J Rheumatol 2003;30:1385-6.
12. Rodnan GP. The nature of joint involvement in progressive systemic sclerosis (diffuse scleroderma). Ann Int Med 1961;56:422-39.
13. Schumacher HR Jr. Joint involvement in progressive systemic sclerosis (scleroderma): a light and electron microscopic study of synovial membrane and fluid. Am J Clin Pathol 1973;60:593-600.
14. Misra R, Darton K, Jewkes RF, Black CM, Maini RN. Arthritis in scleroderma. Br J Rheumatol 1995;34:831-7.
15. Boutry N, Hachulla E, Flipo RM, Cortet B, Cotten A. MR imaging findings in hands in early rheumatoid arthritis: comparison with those in systemic lupus erythematosus and primary Sjogren syndrome. Radiology 2005;236: 593-600.
16. Low AH, Lax M, Johnson SR, Lee P. Magnetic resonance imaging of the hand in systemic sclerosis. J Rheumatol 2009;36:961-4.
17. Ostergaard M, Duer A, Nielsen H et al. Magnetic resonance imaging for accelerated assessment of drug effect and prediction of subsequent radiographic progression in rheumatoid arthritis: a study of patients receiving combined anakinra and methotrexate treatment. Ann Rheum Dis 2005;64:1503-6.
18. Palosaari K, Vuotila J, Takalo R et al. Contrast-enhanced dynamic and static MRI correlates with quantitative 99Tcm-labelled nanocolloid scintigraphy. Study of early rheumatoid arthritis patients. Rheumatology 2004;43: 1364-73.
19. Ejbjerg B, Narvestad E, Rostrup E et al. Magnetic resonance imaging of wrist and finger joints in healthy subjects occasionally shows changes resembling erosions and synovitis seen in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 2004;50:1097-106.
20. McQueen FM. The use of MRI in early RA. Rheumatology 2008;47:1597-9.