Preliminary Definitions for Sacroiliac Joint Pathologies in the OMERACT Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Magnetic

Tarimobo M Otobo1,2, Philip G Conaghan1,2, Walter P Maksymowych1,2

  • 1From the Institute of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Department of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Translational Medicine, SickKids Research Institute, Peter Gilgan Center for Research and Learning; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto; Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto; Department of Rheumatology, Center for Prognosis Studies in Rheumatologic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario; Department of Rheumatology, University of Alberta; Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, University of Alberta; Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds; UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) Trust, Leeds, UK; Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden; Reade | Emma Children's Hospital/Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Departments of Pediatric and Epidemiology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Department of Radiology, Nemours Children's Hospital and Health System, Orlando, Florida, USA; Department of Radiology, National Institute of Geriatrics, Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium; Department of Radiology, Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Radiology, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; Pediatric Rheumatology Research Institute, Bad Bramstedt, Germany; Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India; State University of Campina-UNICAMP, Department of Internal Medicine, Cidade Universitaria, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The Journal of Rheumatology
|February 17, 2019
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