ACR Appropriateness Criteria ® Chronic Back Pain Suspected Sacroiliitis-Spondyloarthropathy
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Inflammatory sacroiliitis or the seronegative axial spondyloarthropathies often presents as back pain or sacroiliac joint pain of more than 3-month duration with inflammatory symptoms and typically in patients younger than 45 years of age. Imaging plays an important role in diagnosis and disease monitoring. This article addresses the appropriate sequence of initial imaging for evaluation of a s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Radiology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1546-1440
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2017.01.048