<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Psoriatic arthritis is one of the spondyloarthritis. It is a disease of clinical heterogenicity, which may affect peripheral joints, as well as axial spine, with presence of inflammatory lesions in soft tissue, in a form of dactylitis and enthesopathy. Plain radiography remains the basic imaging modality for PsA diagnosis, although early inflammatory changes affecting soft tissue and bone marrow cannot be detected with its use, or the image is indistinctive. Typical radiographic features of PsA occur in an advanced disease, mainly within the synovial joints, but also in fibrocartilaginous joints, such as sacroiliac joints, and additionally in entheses of tendons and ligaments. Moll and Wright classified PsA into 5 subtypes: asymmetric oligoarthritis, symmetric polyarthritis, arthritis mutilans, distal interphalangeal arthritis of the hands and feet and spinal column involvement. In this part of the paper we discuss radiographic features of the disease. The next one will address magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasonography.</p></abstract>

Psoriatic arthritis is one of the spondyloarthritis. It is a disease of clinical heterogenicity, which may affect peripheral joints, as well as axial spine, with presence of inflammatory lesions in soft tissue, in a form of dactylitis and enthesopathy. Plain radiography remains the basic imaging modality for PsA diagnosis, although early inflammatory changes affecting soft tissue and bone marrow cannot be detected with its use, or the image is indistinctive. Typical radiographic features of PsA occur in an advanced disease, mainly within the synovial joints, but also in fibrocartilaginous joints, such as sacroiliac joints, and additionally in entheses of tendons and ligaments. Moll and Wright classified PsA into 5 subtypes: asymmetric oligoarthritis, symmetric polyarthritis, arthritis mutilans, distal interphalangeal arthritis of the hands and feet and spinal column involvement. In this part of the paper we discuss radiographic features of the disease. The next one will address magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasonography.

Diagnostic imaging of psoriatic arthritis. Part I: etiopathogenesis, classifications and radiographic features

Journal of Ultrasonography

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Psoriatic arthritis is one of the spondyloarthritis. It is a disease of clinical heterogenicity, which may affect peripheral joints, as well as axial spine,...

Diagnostic imaging of psoriatic arthritis. Part I: etiopathogenesis, classifications and radiographic features

Published Online: Mar 29, 2016

Page range: 65 - 77

Received: Dec 20, 2015

Accepted: Jan 15, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15557/jou.2016.0007

Keywords
spondyloarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, enthesitis, plain radiography, diagnostic imaging, zapalenie stawów kręgosłupa, łuszczycowe zapalenie stawów, radiografia, diagnostyka obrazowa

© 2016 Iwona Sudoł-Szopińska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Public License.

Diagnostic imaging of psoriatic arthritis. Part I: etiopathogenesis, classifications and radiographic features

Published Online: Mar 29, 2016

Page range: 65 - 77

Received: Dec 20, 2015

Accepted: Jan 15, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15557/jou.2016.0007

Keywordsspondyloarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, enthesitis, plain radiography, diagnostic imaging, zapalenie stawów kręgosłupa, łuszczycowe zapalenie stawów, radiografia, diagnostyka obrazowa

© 2016 Iwona Sudoł-Szopińska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Public License.

Keywords
spondyloarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, enthesitis, plain radiography, diagnostic imaging, zapalenie stawów kręgosłupa, łuszczycowe zapalenie stawów, radiografia, diagnostyka obrazowa