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Low-dose CT for spondyloarthritis — a brilliant new chapter?

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Outcome assessment of disease modification represents a major challenge to the development of therapies and management of spondyloarthritis, particularly for patients with axial disease. Could a new approach to imaging assessment of the spine using low-dose CT provide an answer to this perennial problem?

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    Walter P. Maksymowych

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    Robert G. Lambert

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Maksymowych, W., Lambert, R. Low-dose CT for spondyloarthritis — a brilliant new chapter?. Nat Rev Rheumatol 14, 130–131 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrrheum.2018.4

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