Degenerative and inflammatory musculoskeletal disorders: updates and hot topics in diagnostic and interventional imaging

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this review is to present the latest innovations and current topics in musculoskeletal diagnosis and interventional imaging, with a focus on degener-ative and inflammatory diseases.MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study, the search was conducted through the online databases PubMed and Google Scholar, includ-ing articles published in English in the past 15 years, in order to find existing studies, clinical cases, and reviews on the latest innovations and current topics in degenerative and inflammatory musculoskeletal pathologies.RESULTS: Imaging plays a pivotal role in the diagnosis and treatment of MSK degenerative and inflammatory disease. In the last few years continuous innovations and technological ad-vances have allowed new clinical applications in the management of MSK disorder. Advanced magnetic resonance techniques, the introduc-tion of fusion imaging techniques and new ap-proaches to infiltrative medicine are revolution-izing the clinical and therapeutic approach to degenerative and inflammatory pathologies. Ar-tificial intelligence also increasingly seeks to be applied in all fields of medicine and radiology with increasingly promising results.CONCLUSIONS: Imaging modalities undergo continuous innovations and revolutions due to technological advances, with direct repercussions on clinical applications and new thera-peutic potential through interventional radiolo-gy techniques. In recent years, there have been particular innovations in the context of musculo-skeletal imaging of degenerative and inflammato-ry diseases, both for diagnosis and intervention.