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A total of 84 patients manifesting hand and wrist pain (58 women; age, 49.8\u2009\u00b1\u200915.4\u00a0years) were finally diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA, n\u2009=\u200942), osteoarthritis (OA, n\u2009=\u200916), fibromyalgia (FM, n\u2009=\u20092), and other rheumatic diseases (n\u2009=\u200924). The SUV of each patient was measured in 32 joints including the distal interphalangeal (DIP), proximal interphalangeal (PIP), metacarpophalangeal (MCP), and wrist joints bilaterally. Differences in pain and SUVs between specific rheumatic diseases were assessed using the chi-squared test or one-way analysis of variance. Using the highest SUV (hSUV) in each patient, the diagnostic performance in differentiating specific diseases was evaluated by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. Pain symptoms were present in 886 (33.0%) sites in a total of 2688 joints. In four joint groups (DIP, PIP, MCP, and wrist), the SUVs of joints with pain were significantly higher than those of pain-free joints (all <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001). Active joint sites with higher SUVs than the median value of each joint group were the most common in RA (55.1%). RA showed the greatest hSUV in the PIP (3.0\u2009\u00b1\u20092.4), MCP (3.5\u2009\u00b1\u20093.4), and wrist (3.3\u2009\u00b1\u20091.9) joint groups. FM was characterized by the lowest hSUV of all joint groups. In ROC curve analysis, the cumulative hSUV of the PIP, MCP, and wrist joint groups showed good performance for evaluating RA (area under the curve (AUC), 0.668; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.005). The summation of the hSUVs at all joint groups had an excellent predictive performance for FM (AUC, 0.878; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001). Consequently, the arthritic activity of the hand and wrist joints based on SUV differed according to specific rheumatic diseases. 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