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==Overview==
==Overview==
Bone scintigraphy may be helpful in selected ankylosing spondylitis patients with normal or equivocal findings on sacroiliac joint radiographs. The ratio of SI joint to sacral uptake of 1.3:1 or higher of the [[radionuclides]] is considered abnormal.


==Other imaging findings==
==Other imaging findings==
===Bone scintigraphy===
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* May be helpful in selected patients with normal or equivocal findings on sacroiliac joint radiographs
* Qualitative assessment of accumulation of radionuclides in the SI joints may be difficult due to normal uptake in this location. Thus quantitative analysis may be more useful.
* Ratios of SI joint to sacral uptake of 1.3:1 or higher is abnormal


==References==
==References==

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