Abstract:Background/Aims
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an increasingly important role in diagnosing and monitoring patients with inflammatory arthropathies due to its ability to detect early, sometimes subclinical, inflammatory changes, including synovitis. It is a sensitive, accurate and relatively non-operator dependent modality. However, it is typically perceived as expensive and time-consuming, and is used infrequently for evaluation of synovitis in clinical care. MRI is thought to be gen… Show more
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