Paola D’Aprile

2014

A Case-Based Atlas

If it is true, as Henry Bergson wrote, that “the eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend”, then in the context of the pursuit of diagnosis you will have to have time to prepare the mind, to avoid a disorientation that results in partial cognitive blindness. With this atlas, we wanted to share our knowledge and case studies, on the aspects of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of rheumatic inflammatory lesions, the osteoarticular and ligaments structure that make up the spine. The rheumatic condition of the spine comprises a group of non-infectious inflammatory lesions that affect both the osteoarticular structure and the ligaments of the spine. The term used for these injuries is axial spondyloarthritis.