Optional medical device diagnostics – depending on the results of the history, physical examination, laboratory diagnostics, and obligatory medical device diagnostics – for differential diagnostic clarification.
- If reactivation is suspected, depending on the exact symptoms, sonography (ultrasound examination), conventional X-ray examination; in rare cases, if necessary, computed tomography (CT; sectional imaging procedure (X-ray images from different directions with computer-based evaluation))/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI; computer-assisted sectional imaging procedure (by means of magnetic fields, that is, without X-ray radiation)).
