We reviewed 15 consecutive patients, 11 women and four men, with a mean age of 48.7 years (37.3 to 62.6), who between July 2004 and August 2007 had undergone percutaneous sacroiliac fusion using hollow modular anchorage screws filled with demineralised bone matrix. Each patient was carefully assessed to exclude other conditions and underwent pre-operative CT and MR scans. The diagnosis of sympt...

A radiological study of the sacroiliac joints was undertaken in 54 patients (32 males, 22 females) with vertebral ankylosing hyperostosis (VAH) and in 46 control patients (24 males, 22 females) matched for age and sex. The ages ranged from 38 to 90 years. The radiographs were taken in anteroposterior, oblique, and craniocaudal projections. The films were read for cranial, ventral, and caudal ca...

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is inflammation of the sacroiliac joints and spine, associated with clinical symptoms such as pain stiffness in vertebral column, after which, a considerable number individuals, new bone growth occurs.

The aim of this work was to analyse possible influence of passive sacroiliac joint mobilisation on body posture changes in the sagittal plane. Investigations embraced 900 children and young people aged 5–19 with symptoms of functional asymmetry of the pelvis. One evaluated the quality of body posture twice – alternately in habitual standing and during autoelongation in starting examination – an...

Four cases of post-yersinial reactive arthritis are described. All patients presented with an acute lower limb arthropathy with features of an associated enthesopathy. Two patients had restriction of axial skeletal movements. Systemic features were prominent in three, including weight loss and malaise. Mean age of onset was 34 years. Three patients gave a history of antecedent diarrhoea within ...

A 27-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with an approximately 4-month history of acute-onset osteoarthralgia migrating in both shoulder and hip joints following severe cranialgia as an initial symptom. Physical examination showed obvious tenderness in the bilateral sacroiliac joints, and a diagnosis of acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) was made based on histopathological bone marrow fin...

We report two unusual cases of septic sacroiliitis resulting from intravenous Subutex abuse that initially masqueraded as low back pain. Both patients, a 48-year-old Malay man and a 30-year-old Malay woman, presented with chills, rigor and progressive lower back pain, and eventually experienced difficulty in ambulating. The Malay woman also developed severe pain in her left elbow, with swelling...