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Inflammation surrounding the vertebral spinous processes as spondylarthritis in Behçet's disease
Hiroyuki Yamashita1, Kazuo Kubota, Yuko Takahashi
1Division of Rheumatic Diseases, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, 1-21-1 Toyama, Shinjuku, Tokyo 162-8655, Japan. hiroyuki_yjp2005@yahoo.co.jp
Abstract:
Here, we present two Behçet'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.
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