Differences of ultrasonographic enthesitis between patients with non-radiographic axial spondylarthritis and ankylosing spondylitis  

作　　者：Juan Li Min Wang Fenghuang Xu Guoquan Li Feng Ye 

机构地区：[1]Department of Rheumatology and Immunology,The First Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University,Haikou,Hainan 570102,China

出　　处：《Chinese Medical Journal》2022年第21期2640-2641,共2页中华医学杂志（英文版）

摘　　要：To the Editor:Spondyloarthritis(SpA)is the umbrella term for a broad spectrum of inflammatory rheumatic diseases with different clinical manifestations and characteristic imaging features.Furthermore,enthesitis is considered a pathological,clinical,and imaginable hallmark of the SpA.In addition to ineffective clinical evaluation techniques of enthesitis,there are useful imaging methods to assess enthesitis,such as whole-body magnetic resonance imaging[1]and ultrasound(US)[2]examination.US has the advantage of real-time imaging and high-cost effectiveness performance.The difference in enthesitis detected by US between non-radiographic-axial SpA(nr-axSpA)and radiographic-axSpA/ankylosing spondylitis(AS)has been seldom researched.Recently,we compared the prevalence and severity of enthesitis between nr-axSpA and AS.

关 键 词：SPONDYLITIS clinical DISEASES 

分 类 号：R593.23[医药卫生—内科学]