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Diagnostic Imaging Musculoskeletal : Non-Traumatic Disease
When an arthritic process is well establlished in a particular patient, it will usually achieve a typical appearance, which allows diagnosis by means of imaging. At such a moderately early or midstage of diseases, radiographs are usually sufficient to make the correct diagnosis. The diagnosis usually depends on the location of the joint abnormalities and a host of other radiographic characteristics.rnrnrnLocation of involved joints can eliminate some diagnoses and raise the probability of others. For example, distal interphalangeal joint disease is commonly seen in psoriatic arthristis, ostheoasthristis, and erosive osteoarthristis. However , it is not seen in rheumatoid arthristhis; thus this diagnosis should the sacroiliac joints would raise the possibility of ankylosing spondylitis, inflammatory bowel disease arthritis, psoroatic spondyloarthropathy, chronic reactive arthritis, osteoarthritis, and DISH. Common locations of joint involvement are illustrated in diagrammatic fashion in this section.rn
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