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Spondyloarthropathy MRI

MRI

MRI indications in patients with SpA are included:

  • For evaluating inflammatory lesions of enthesitis
  • When the clinical suspicious for diagnosis of SpA are high but there is not evidence of it in sacroiliac X-ray
  • To evaluate the compression of spinal cord
  • In patients with bowel or bladder dysfunction (that night happen due to cord compression and caudal equina syndrome)

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