HR-pQCT in vivo imaging of periarticular bone changes in chronic inflammatory diseases: Data from acquisition to impact on treatment indications.
Mod Rheumatol
; 31(2): 294-302, 2021 Mar.
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Imaging is essential for the assessment of bone and inflammatory joint diseases. There are several imaging techniques available that differ regarding resolution, radiation exposure, time expending, precision, cost, availability or ability to predict disease progression. High-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) that was introduced in 2004 allows the in vivo evaluation of peripheral bone microarchitecture and demonstrated high precision in assessing bone changes in inflammatory musculoskeletal diseases. This review summarizes the use of HR-pQCT for the evaluation of the hand skeleton in inflammatory joint diseases. We conducted a review of the literature regarding the protocols that involve hand joints assessment and evaluation of bone changes as erosions and osteophytes in chronic inflammatory diseases. Apart from measuring bone density and structure of the radius and the tibia, HR-pQCT has contributed to assessment of bone erosions and osteophytes, considered the hallmark of diseases as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis, respectively. In this way, there are some conventions recently established by rheumatic study groups that we just summarized here in order to standardize HR-pQCT measurements.
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Artrite Reumatoide
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Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Humans
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En
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Mod Rheumatol
Ano de publicação:
2021
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Article
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Brasil
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Reino Unido