Key Takeaways

Contrast-enhanced dual-energy CT (CE-DECT) imaging offers more detailed information on a wider range of tissues than conventional CT scans.

This technology is now in clinical use for crystal arthropathies, but it could also be of value in other arthritic conditions.

This study in patients with painful/inflamed hand joints showed that CE-DECT improved diagnostic accuracy and patient management.

Contrast-enhanced dual-energy CT (CE-DECT) helped to diagnose patients with painful and/or inflamed hand joints, researchers said.

Initial diagnoses in 136 patients included in the study were changed following the scans in 67 (49%), according to Sevtap Tugce Ulas, MD, of Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and colleagues.

The rheumatologists who had referred these patients, asked

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