[Pseudo-spondylodiscitis as manifestation of diffuse articular chondrocalcinosis (author's transl)]. / Les pseudo-spondylodiscites de la chondrocalcinose articulaire diffuse.
Nouv Presse Med
; 9(26): 1827-30, 1980 Jun 14.
Article
in Fr
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-7393731
ABSTRACT
Articular chondrocalcinosis (ACC), which is due to the precipitation of calcium pyrophosphate microcrystals, is known to produce symptom of acute arthritis or chronic degenerative polyarticular lesions. It is more rarely responsible for rapidly destructive lesions of the joints suggesting a metabolic or neurological process. The case reported here of a 66 year old woman with major lesions of the L1-L2 intervertebral space, together with other cases already published, shows that the destructive spinal forms of ACC may also present as subacute spondylodiscitis. The latter, however, merely represents 4.9% of all destructive articular lesions of ACC and 5.2% of the vertebral localizations of all forms of the disease.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Spondylitis
/
Chondrocalcinosis
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Intervertebral Disc
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Limits:
Aged
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Female
/
Humans
Language:
Fr
Journal:
Nouv Presse Med
Year:
1980
Document type:
Article