%0 Journal Article
%T Bamboo spine ¨C X-ray findings of ankylosing spondylitis revisited
%A A Reinders
%A MJ van Wyk
%J South African Journal of Radiology
%D 2012
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%X Ankylosing spondylitis is a debilitating disease that is one of the seronegative spondylarthropathies, affecting more males than females in the proportion of about 6:1 in the age group 15 - 35 years of age. Early radiographic findings include bilateral sacro-iliitis and early axial (lower lumbar spine) ankylosis. Typical X-ray findings are florid spondylitis (Romanus lesions), florid diskitis (Andersson lesions), early axial ankylosis, enthesitis, syndesmophytes and insufficiency fractures. Typical radiological abnormalities are pointed out on conventional X-rays and reviewed for early diagnosis and prompt treatment of patients at risk.
%U http://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajr/article/view/81505