HISTOPATHOLOGY OF DIARTHRODIAL JOINTS IN ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS
HISTOPATHOLOGY OF DIARTHRODIAL JOINTS IN ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS
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DOI:
10.1136/ard.10.4.393
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发表时间:
1951-01-01
影响因子:
27.4
通讯作者:
CRUICKSHANK, B
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作者:
CRUICKSHANK, B
The literature on the pathology of ankylosing spondylitis contains only three articles in which the histopathology of diarthrodial joints is described (Guntz, 1933; Freund, 1942; Collins, 1949). Furthermore, these papers are concerned mainly with pathologically late and clinically inactive stages of the disease and have few illustrations. Despite the lack of adequate pathological study, it is widelyheld that ankylosing spondylitis isa variant of rheumatoid arthritis, rather than a separate disease. The objects of this paper are therefore:(a) to describe and illustrate in detail the histopathology of the diarthrodial joints in ankylosing spondylitis, particularly in clinically active cases,(b) to discuss the relationship between ankylosing spondylitis andrheuma-toid arthritis as they affect this type of joint.Material Tissue was obtained from twelve cases of ankylosing spondylitis. Three examples were from post-mortem studies, and the other nine were obtained at operation. The first post-mortem case was exceptional in being clinically active at the time of death and in the number of joints involved. Practically every joint in the body was affected, most of them showing some degree of ankylosis. This case was extensively studied and histological examination included several blocks from the right knee, one from all joints of the first right toe and the right medial cuneiform-first metatarsal joint, several from each sacro-iliac joint, one from each sterno-clavicularjoint, one from each of several costo-sternal joints, and several from the manubrio-sternal joint. The spinal column from the ninth thoracic to the third sacral vertebrae was removed at autopsy and blocks were taken from many intervertebral joints, intervertebral disks and the left tenth costo-vertebral joint. Many of the illustrations are taken from this case (Figs 8, 10-14, 16, 18). Only axial joints were involved in the second post-mortem case; the spinal column from T3 to L4, the sternal joints, and the symphysis pubis were examined in detail. The third post-mortem case was that already reported by Freund (1942), many sections from the lumbar vertebrae being available.