Assessment of bone synthetic activity in inflammatory lesions and syndesmophytes in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: the potential role of 18F-fluoride positron emission tomography-magnetic resonance imaging. - Concepedia

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Assessment of bone synthetic activity in inflammatory lesions and syndesmophytes in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: the potential role of 18F-fluoride positron emission tomography-magnetic resonance imaging.

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2015

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Seung‐Geun Lee, In Joo Kim, Keun-Young Kim, Hee-Young Kim, Kyoung-June Park, Seong-Jang Kim, Eunkyoung Park, Yun-Kyung Jeon, Byeong-Yun Yang, Geun-Tae Kim

Abstract

Our data suggest that an inflammatory lesion as well as a syndesmophyte is associated with active bone synthesis assessed by 18F-fluoride uptake in the spine of AS patients. 18F-fluoride PET-MRI may have the potential for investigating the pathogenesis of structural damage in AS.