Abstracts tagged "chronic low back pain and diagnostic imaging"

Abstract Number: 1831 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Positive MRI of the Sacroiliac Joints Is Not Specific for Axial Spondyloarthritis but Frequently Occurs in Healthy Individuals
Janneke de Winter¹, Manouk de Hooge², Marleen van de Sande¹, Lonneke van Hoeven³, Jet de Jong¹, Anoek de Koning², Inger Jorid Berg⁴, Roberta Ramonda⁵, Dominique Baeten^1,6, Désirée van der Heijde⁷, Angelique Weel⁸ and Robert B.M. Landewé⁹, ¹Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Amsterdam Rheumatology and immunology Center, Academic Medical Center/University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Rheumatology, Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁵Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine DIMED, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, ⁶UCB Pharma, Slough, United Kingdom, ⁷Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁸Department of Rheumatology, Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ⁹Amsterdam Rheumatology & Immunology Center, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Inflammation shown on MRI of the sacroiliac joint (MRI-SI) is prevalent in axSpA (±30%) but the specificity is not well known, hence we compared…

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