Joint assessment may be challenging in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) due to difficult pain assessment, clinically challenging joint areas (e.g., ankle, axial skeleton or entheses) and physiological changes in the maturing skeleton easily mistaken for inflammation (1, 2).Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is today used in clinical pediatric rheumatology to assess joints for inflammation and to rule out differential diagnoses (3).In this issue, Choida et al propose a whole-body MRI (WBMRI) method for assessing joint inflammation and structural damage in JIA for use in clinical practice (4).
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