Key Facts Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy • Clinically, patients with reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) present with intense, prolonged pain, vasomotor disturbances, delayed functional recovery, and trophic changes in the affected extremity…
Key Facts Paget’s Disease • The cause of Paget’s disease is not known. • Patients are frequently asymptomatic. • It is often an incidental finding on imaging studies. • It…
Key Facts • Osteomalacia resulting from the presence of a bone or soft tissue lesion or tumor is known as oncogenic osteomalacia or tumor-induced osteomalacia (TIO). • Adults are usually…
Key Facts Gout • Clinically significant attacks may occur many years before radiographic changes are evident. • Radiographs classically show well-defined erosions with overhanging edges and sclerotic borders. • Soft…
Key Facts • Spine injection procedures can be helpful in localizing pain to a particular source (nociceptor) and in treating symptoms. • Careful image guidance is necessary to optimize results…
Key Points • Seronegative spondyloarthropathies are interrelated chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases that include ankylosing spondylitis (AS), reactive arthritis, psoriatic spondyloarthropathy, spondyloarthropathy associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy….
Key Facts • Rickets and osteomalacia result from inadequate or delayed mineralization of newly synthesized organic matrix (osteoid) in mature bone (osteomalacia) or growing bone (rickets). • The causes of…
Key Points • Osteoarthritis involves all structures of the joint. • Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis. • There is no direct correlation between radiographic findings and symptoms….
Key Facts Hemochromatosis • Most cases are due to a mutation that results in increased iron absorption from the gut. • Secondary hemochromatosis is due to iron overload from other…
Key Facts Musculoskeletal System • Radiographs can demonstrate the characteristic features of systemic sclerosis including calcinosis, loss of normal distal soft tissue and skin creases, and osteolysis that particularly involves…
