title: [Radiological assessment of ankylosing spondylitis].
abstract: This review presents the radiologic evaluation of AS as well as the radiologic appearances of the disease. The presentation is limited to radiologic changes of the sacroiliac joints and the lumbar spine. Conventional radiography and CT are used for the evaluation of the sacroiliac joints and in the lumbar spine conventional lateral tomography is used in addition to conventional radiography. Radioisotope scanning plays a limited role in the evaluation of AS. The diagnostic value and future potentials of MR imaging await further study.
authors.affiliation: FMH diagnostische Radiologie, Kantonsspital, Luzern.
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authors.lastname: Kaufmann
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012446:Sacroiliac Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013167:Spondylitis, Ankylosing / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014056:Tomography, X-Ray; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Radiologische Abklärung der ankylosierenden Spondylitis (AS).