Recommendations of the ESSR Arthritis Subcommittee for the Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Musculoskeletal Rheumatic Diseases

Sudoł-Szopińska, Iwona MD, PhD
Jurik, Anne Grethe MD, DMSc
Eshed, Iris MD
Lennart, Jans MD
Grainger, Andrew MRCP, FRCR
Østergaard, Mikkel MD, PhD, DMSc
Klauser, Andrea MD
Cotten, Anne MD, PhD
Wick, Marius C. MD
Maas, Mario MD, PhD
Miese, Falk MD
Egund, Niels MD
Boutry, Nathalie MD
Rupreht, Mitja MD, PhD
Reijnierse, Monique MD
Oei, Edwin H. G. MD, PhD
Meier, Reinhard MD
O'Connor, Phil MD
Feydy, Antoine MD, PhD
Mascarenhas, Vasco MD
Plagou, Athena MD
Simoni, Paolo MD
Platzgummer, Hannes MD
Rennie, Winston J. MBBS
Mester, Adam MD
Teh, James MD
Robinson, Philip MB ChB, MRCP, FRCR
Guglielmi, Giuseppe MD
Åström, Gunnar MD
Schueller-Weiderkamm, Claudia MD

¹Department of Radiology, National Institute of Geriatrics, Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Warsaw, Poland, and Imaging Diagnostic Department, Warsaw Medical University, Poland
²Division of Radiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
³Department of Diagnostic Imaging, The Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
⁴Department of Radiology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
⁵Department of MSK Radiology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Chapel Allerton Orthopaedic Centre, Leeds, United Kingdom
⁶Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup and University of Copenhagen, Glostrup, Denmark
⁷Department of Radiology, Medical University Innsbruck, Section Rheumatology and Sports Imaging, Innsbruck, Austria
⁸Department of Musculoskeletal Radiology, University Hospital of Lille, Lille, France
⁹Department of Radiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
¹⁰Division of Musculoskeletal Radiology, Department of Radiology, University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
¹¹Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Düsseldorf and Practice for Radiology, Nuklear Medicine and Radiotherapy, Bottop, German
¹²Department of Radiology, Aarhus University Hospital Aarhus C, Aarhus, Denmark
¹³Service de Radiopédiatrie, Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre, CHRU de Lille, Lille, France
¹⁴Department of Radiology, UMC Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
¹⁵Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
¹⁶Department of Radiology, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
¹⁷Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
¹⁸NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Imaging Unit, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Leeds, United Kingdom
¹⁹Department of Radiology B, Cochin Hospital, Paris University of Descartes, Paris Cedex, France
²⁰Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital da Luz, Luz-Saude, Lisbon, Portugal
²¹Ultrasound Unit, Private Radiological Institution, Athens, Greece
²²Department of Radiology, University of Bruxelles, Reine Fabiola Children's University Hospital of Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
²³Department of Biomedical Imaging und Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
²⁴Department of Radiology, Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, United Kingdom
²⁵Department of Radiology, National Institute of Rheumatology and Physiotherapy, Budapest, Hungary
²⁶Department of Radiology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom
²⁸Department of Radiology, Scientific Institute Hospital “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza,” San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
²⁹Department of Radiology, Akademiska Sjukhuset, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
³⁰Division of Neuroradiology and Musculoskeletal Radiology, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Address for correspondence Iwona Sudoł-Szopińska, MD, PhD, Department of Radiology, Institute of Rheumatology, Warsaw, Poland, and Imaging Diagnostic Department, Warsaw Medical University, Poland, [email protected]

Issue Theme Update on Advances in Musculoskeletal Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Guest Editor, Patrick Omoumi, MD, MSc, PhD

Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology 19(4):p 396-411, September 2015. | DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1564696

Abstract

This article presents the recommendations of the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology Arthritis Subcommittee regarding the standards of the use of MRI in the diagnosis of musculoskeletal rheumatic diseases. The recommendations discuss (1) the role of MRI in current classification criteria of musculoskeletal rheumatic diseases (including early diagnosis of inflammation, disease follow-up, and identification of disease complications); (2) the impact of MRI on the diagnosis of axial and peripheral spondyloarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and juvenile spondyloarthritis; (3) MRI protocols for the axial and peripheral joints; (4) MRI interpretation and reporting for axial and peripheral joints; and finally, (5) methods for assessing MR images including quantitative, semiquantitative, and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI studies.