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Review
. 2015 Sep;19(4):396-411.
doi: 10.1055/s-0035-1564696. Epub 2015 Nov 19.

Recommendations of the ESSR Arthritis Subcommittee for the Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Musculoskeletal Rheumatic Diseases

Iwona Sudoł-Szopińska  1 , Anne Grethe Jurik  2 , Iris Eshed  3 , Jans Lennart  4 , Andrew Grainger  5 , Mikkel Østergaard  6 , Andrea Klauser  7 , Anne Cotten  8 , Marius C Wick  9 , Mario Maas  10 , Falk Miese  11 , Niels Egund  12 , Nathalie Boutry  13 , Mitja Rupreht  14 , Monique Reijnierse  15 , Edwin H G Oei  16 , Reinhard Meier  17 , Phil O'Connor  18 , Antoine Feydy  19 , Vasco Mascarenhas  20 , Athena Plagou  21 , Paolo Simoni  22 , Hannes Platzgummer  23 , Winston J Rennie  24 , Adam Mester  25 , James Teh  26 , Philip Robinson  5 , Giuseppe Guglielmi  27 , Gunnar Åström  28 , Claudia Schueller-Weiderkamm  29
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Recommendations of the ESSR Arthritis Subcommittee for the Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Musculoskeletal Rheumatic Diseases

Iwona Sudoł-Szopińska et al. Semin Musculoskelet Radiol. 2015 Sep.

Abstract

This article presents the recommendations of the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology Arthritis Subcommittee regarding the standards of the use of MRI in the diagnosis of musculoskeletal rheumatic diseases. The recommendations discuss (1) the role of MRI in current classification criteria of musculoskeletal rheumatic diseases (including early diagnosis of inflammation, disease follow-up, and identification of disease complications); (2) the impact of MRI on the diagnosis of axial and peripheral spondyloarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and juvenile spondyloarthritis; (3) MRI protocols for the axial and peripheral joints; (4) MRI interpretation and reporting for axial and peripheral joints; and finally, (5) methods for assessing MR images including quantitative, semiquantitative, and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI studies.

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