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- The knee is frequently affected by inflammatory arthritis, including crystal-induced and autoimmune types, leading to various patterns of joint damage over time.
- Different types of arthritis have distinct causes, resulting in different imaging results, with some causing rapid joint destruction and others taking years to show damage.
- Traditional imaging methods, like X-rays and MRIs, are crucial for diagnosis, but new techniques like dual-energy CT and hybrid imaging are enhancing how we diagnose and understand these knee conditions.
Article Abstract
The knee is one of the most commonly affected joints in the course of inflammatory arthropathies, such as crystal-induced and autoimmune inflammatory arthritis. The latter group includes systemic connective tissue diseases and spondyloarthropathies. The different pathogenesis of these entities results in their varied radiologic images. Some lead quickly to joint destruction, others only after many years, and in the remaining, destruction will not be a distinguishing radiologic feature.Radiography, ultrasonography, and magnetic resonance imaging have traditionally been the primary modalities in the diagnosis of noninflammatory and inflammatory arthropathies. In the case of crystallopathies, dual-energy computed tomography has been introduced. Hybrid techniques also offer new diagnostic opportunities. In this article, we discuss the pathologic findings and imaging correlations for crystallopathies and inflammatory diseases of the knee, with an emphasis on recent advances in their imaging diagnosis.
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