title: [Differential diagnosis of rheumatic diseases].
abstract: QUESTION TO ANSWER: Which imaging modalities are appropriate for the Differential diagnosis of Rheumatic diseases.
  
  
  RESULTS
  MRI has far most the highest sensitivity and is unequaled in its brilliant presentation of anatomy and pathology. But it is sometimes forgotten, that this is at least in part the result of carefully selected sequences, dedicated to the expected result.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Plain X-ray offers high specificity in the differential diagnoses of rheumatic diseases, it is well standardised and it is a device, to use independent from any suspected findings.
authors.affiliation: Zentrales Röntgeninstitut, Sana-Rheumazentrum, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 9-11, 55543 Bad Kreuznach. dr.lingg@sana-rheumazentrum-rlp.de
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lingg
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schorn
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D012216:Rheumatic Diseases / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*