Baastrup’s disease: beyond kissing spine

The "kissing spine" revisited.

A 46-year-old woman presented to our department with persistent low back pain, which increased by back flexion and was released by flexion. On clinical examination, localized midline lumbar tenderness was noted. MRI showed a soft tissue lesion between the adjacent spinous processes of L3 and L4. The lesion was of low signal intensity on T1-weighted images (WI) (Fig. A, arrow), and hyperintense ...

Fluoroscopically-guided injections to treat "kissing spine" disease.

BACKGROUND Any spine structure that is innervated by afferent nociceptive nerve fibers is a potential pain generator. In the lumbar spine, the most studied pain generators include: sacroiliac joints, the zygapophysial joints, the intervertebral discs, myofascial structures. Anomalous lumbosacral articulations, the spinous processes, and lumbar spine osteophytes are less commonly reported. OBJ...

Interstitial nephritis: another kissing disease?

Kyphoscoliosis: looking beyond the spine.

To cite: Ferreira JF, Coutinho M, Duarte C, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2014-209096 DESCRIPTION A 38-year-old woman was referred to the rheumatology department due to mechanical low back pain and progressive scoliosis that started in adolescence. She had no other joint or systemic symptoms despite pigmented skin lesions scattered throug...

From SPINE to SPINE-2 complexes and beyond

It is about a decade since SPINE – Structural Proteomics IN Europe – was envisaged, set-up and submitted as an idea to the European Commission fifth framework programme. Our concepts were built on the paradigm of the USA-based structural genomics projects (http://www.nigms.nih.gov/psi), the Japanese initiatives (http://www.rsgi.riken.go.jp/rsgi_e), and some national efforts within Europe. At th...