Arthritis in Behcet's syndrome

Br J Radiol. 1983 Feb;56(662):87-91. doi: 10.1259/0007-1285-56-662-87.

Abstract

The clinical and radiological features of fourteen patients with Behcet's syndrome have been reviewed with particular reference to joint disease. Thirteen patients (93%) suffered recurrent peripheral oligo- or poly-arthritis, this symptom being the presenting complaint in two (14%). There were no radiographic abnormalities in peripheral joints. Ten patients (71%) complained of low back pain and in seven (50%) there was a mild erosive sacro-iliitis. Five patients (36%) had an enthesopathy (calcaneal spurs) one of whom also demonstrated vertebral body squaring. Patients with sacro-iliitis did not possess the HLA B27 antigen. Behcet's syndrome should be entertained in the radiological differentiation of sacro-iliitis with a clinical arthropathy.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Arthritis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Arthritis / etiology
  • Behcet Syndrome / diagnostic imaging*
  • Calcaneus / diagnostic imaging
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Radiography
  • Sacroiliac Joint / diagnostic imaging