Candidate lesion-based criteria for defining a positive sacroiliac joint MRI in two cohorts of patients with axial spondyloarthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1976-1982

  Weber, Ulrich ^a,b   Østergaard, Mikkel ^c   Lambert, Robert G W ^d   Pedersen, Susanne J ^c   Chan, Stanley M ^d   Zubler, Veronika ^b   Rufibach, Kaspar ^e   Zhao, Zheng ^f   Maksymowych, Walter P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e Rufibach rePROstat   (Switzerland)

^f CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT IN SPONDYLOARTHRITIS INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY CRITERIA; BACKACHE; BONE EROSION; BONE MARROW EDEMA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GLOBAL ASSESSMENT CRITERIA; HUMAN; IRIDOCYCLITIS; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHO CRITERIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACROILIAC JOINT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; SYMPTOM; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; BACK PAIN; BONE MARROW; COMPLICATION; EDEMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SACROILIITIS; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY;

ADULT; BACK PAIN; BONE MARROW; COHORT STUDIES; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SACROILIAC JOINT; SACROILIITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPONDYLARTHROPATHIES; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; UVEITIS, ANTERIOR;

EID: 84945190157     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-205408     Document Type: Article

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