DESTRUCTIVE LESIONS OF VERTEBRAL BODIES IN ANKYLOSING-SPONDYLITIS
DESTRUCTIVE LESIONS OF VERTEBRAL BODIES IN ANKYLOSING-SPONDYLITIS
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DOI:
10.1136/ard.31.5.345
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发表时间:
1972-01-01
影响因子:
27.4
通讯作者:
KELLGREN, JH
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作者:
CAWLEY, MID;CHALMERS, TM;KELLGREN, JH
The first report of such lesions is attributable to Andersson (1937), who described sclerosis and destruction around the disc margins in lumbar and thoracic vertebrae in radiographs of two patients. The earliest significant clinical observations were made by Edstr6m (1940). In a paper on the nature of AS, he referred to a male patient who, some years after the onset of the disease, developed severe pains in the back during a spell of unusually heavy work; a year later radiographs showed vertebral destruction around the T12/L1 disc. Tuberculosis was suspected but the lesion was not investigated pathologically. In retrospect this clinical sequence is in some respects exemplary, yetit receives little emphasis in subsequent reports. Indeed, the purely clinical aspects ofpatients with destructive lesions are not well documented in the literature and have not been made the subject of a formal study. In 1951 the lesions were again briefly mentioned by Guest and Jacobson (1951) and Fores-tier, Jacqueline, and Rotes-Querol (1951: trans. 1956), the latter authors having encountered two cases intheir review of 200 patients with AS. The following year Romanus and Yden (1952) described thesuperficial, short-lived, erosion of the anteriorand antero-lateral surface of the vertebral rim which they called'anterior spondylitis'. Their systematic radio-logical studies were prompted by their having encountered patients with AS and severe destructive lesions of vertebral bodies; having discovered minor vertebral erosions close to discs (anterior spondylitis) in the early stages of AS, they speculated that severe destructive lesions might be exceptional extensions of the primary inflammatory phase of the disease. Since recent pathological studies (Ball, 1971) indicate that anterior spondylitis, as defined above, is probably the precursor of the characteristic ossification of the annulus (Fig. 1), it seems important