Incidental computed tomography sacroiliitis: Clinical significance and inappropriateness of the New York radiological grading criteria for the diagnosis

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 425-428

  Slobodin, Gleb ^a,b   Croitoru, Simona ^a   Starikov, Natalia ^a   Younis, Said ^a   Boulman, Nina ^a   Rimar, Doron ^a,b   Rosner, Itzhak ^a,b   Rozenbaum, Michael ^a,b   Odeh, Majed ^a,b  

^a BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Sacroiliitis; Spondyloarthritis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JOINT CAVITY; MALE; NEW YORK RADIOLOGICAL GRADING CRITERIA; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SACROILIITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SACROILIAC JOINT; SACROILIITIS; SPONDYLARTHRITIS;

EID: 84859771785     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: 14349949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-011-1871-6     Document Type: Article

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