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Correspondence response
Response to: ‘Synovitis in knee osteoarthritis: a precursor or concomitant feature?’ by Zeng et al
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  1. Inoshi Atukorala1,
  2. C Kent Kwoh2,
  3. Ali Guermazi3,
  4. Frank Roemer4,
  5. Robert Boudreau5,
  6. Michael J Hannon6,
  7. David J Hunter7
  1. 1Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
  2. 2Department of Medicine/Rheumatology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
  3. 3Department of Radiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  4. 4Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  5. 5Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
  6. 6Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
  7. 7Department of Rheumatology, University of Sydney, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia
  1. Correspondence to Dr Inoshi Atukorala, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo 0800, Western Province, Sri Lanka; inoshi.atu{at}gmail.com,

https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-207800

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    We thank Zeng et al1 for their interest in our paper ‘Synovitis in knee osteoarthritis: a precursor of disease?’.2 We would like to clarify the reason we chose radiographs over MRI to identify early radiographic knee osteoarthritis (OA). We agree with the author's statement that MRI is more sensitive than knee radiographs for identification of early knee OA.3 However, at the moment the MRI definition of knee OA has not been …

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