title: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis of the axial joints: a systematic review of the diagnostic accuracy and predictive value of conventional MRI.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Our objective was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy and reliability of MRI and its ability to depict responsiveness to treatment for the evaluation of the axial joints (temporomandibular joint [TMJ], spinal joints, and sacroiliac joints) in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is fair (grade B) evidence that MRI is an accurate diagnostic method for evaluating early and intermediate changes in the TMJ in JIA and insufficient evidence to indicate MRI is an accurate diagnostic method for detecting JIA in the spinal (grade I) and sacroiliac (grade I) joints.
authors.affiliation: 1 Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Sohaib
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Munir
authors.forename: Kedar
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Patil
authors.forename: Elka
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Uleryk
authors.forename: Marinka
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Twilt
authors.forename: Lynn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Spiegel
authors.forename: Andrea S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Doria
mesh_terms: D001171:Arthritis, Juvenile / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D012446:Sacroiliac Joint / Q000473:pathology*; D025241:Spondylarthritis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D013704:Temporomandibular Joint / Q000473:pathology*