title: Imaging features of musculoskeletal involvement in systemic sclerosis.
abstract: This article describes the radiographic, sonographic and magnetic resonance (MR) features of musculoskeletal involvement in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). Conventional radiography is the traditional method of detecting digital calcifications, but ultrasonography (US) is also able to detect such calcifications before they appear on radiographs. MR imaging can be used to diagnose overlapping conditions (i.e., SSc and myositis or SSc and rheumatoid arthritis), and less frequently, to reveal neurologic complications of SSc. In patients with vascular ulcers, MR angiography is able to depict decreased flow within collateral digital arteries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Musculoskeletal Radiology, Hôpital Roger Salengro, CHRU de Lille, Boulevard du Pr. J Leclercq, 59037, Lille Cedex, France. nboutry@chru-lille.fr
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Boutry
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hachulla
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zanetti-Musielak
authors.forename: Mélanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morel
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Demondion
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cotten
mesh_terms: D003287:Contrast Media; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012595:Scleroderma, Systemic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media