Journal
MODERN RHEUMATOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 294-302Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14397595.2020.1804669
Keywords
Arthritis; bone erosion; bone spur; computed tomography
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- FAPESP (Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo) [2016/00006-7]
- FAPESP [2018/01315-9]
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This review summarizes the use of high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) for assessing the hand skeleton in inflammatory joint diseases, including a literature review on hand joint assessment and evaluation of bone changes as erosions and osteophytes in diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis. Additionally, HR-pQCT has helped standardize measurements in these diseases.
Imaging is essential for the assessment of bone and inflammatory joint diseases. There are several imaging techniques available that differ regarding resolution, radiation exposure, time expending, precision, cost, availability or ability to predict disease progression. High-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) that was introduced in 2004 allows thein vivoevaluation of peripheral bone microarchitecture and demonstrated high precision in assessing bone changes in inflammatory musculoskeletal diseases. This review summarizes the use of HR-pQCT for the evaluation of the hand skeleton in inflammatory joint diseases. We conducted a review of the literature regarding the protocols that involve hand joints assessment and evaluation of bone changes as erosions and osteophytes in chronic inflammatory diseases. Apart from measuring bone density and structure of the radius and the tibia, HR-pQCT has contributed to assessment of bone erosions and osteophytes, considered the hallmark of diseases as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis, respectively. In this way, there are some conventions recently established by rheumatic study groups that we just summarized here in order to standardize HR-pQCT measurements.
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