Vol.23 No.4

Case Report

Inflammation surrounding the vertebral spinous processes as spondylarthritis in Beh?et’s disease

Authors

Hiroyuki Yamashita1 , Kazuo Kubota2 , Yuko Takahashi1 , Hiroshi Kaneko1 , Toshikazu Kano1 , Akio Mimori1

  • Division of Rheumatic Diseases, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, 1-21-1 Toyama, Shinjuku, Tokyo 162-8655, Japan
  • Department of Radiology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Received:

12 April 2012

Accepted:

21 June 2012

Published online:

14 July 2012

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Abstract

Here, we present two Behc?et’s disease (BD) patients with an uncommon complication: inflammation surrounding the spinous processes revealed by positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT). Both patients were treated successfully with 20 mg of prednisolone daily. Whether BD should be considered a form of spondylarthritis remains an open question. However, inflammation around the spinous processes should be regarded as a possible uncommon finding of seronegative spondyloarthropathy (SpA) in BD patients.

Key words

Beh?et’s disease, Spondyloarthritis, Positron emission tomography/computed tomography, MRI, Enthesitis