title: Arthritis in Behcet's syndrome.
abstract: The clinical and radiological features of fourteen patients with Behcet's syndrome have been reviewed with particular reference to joint disease. Thirteen patients (93%) suffered recurrent peripheral oligo- or poly-arthritis, this symptom being the presenting complaint in two (14%). There were no radiographic abnormalities in peripheral joints. Ten patients (71%) complained of low back pain and in seven (50%) there was a mild erosive sacro-iliitis. Five patients (36%) had an enthesopathy (calcaneal spurs) one of whom also demonstrated vertebral body squaring. Patients with sacro-iliitis did not possess the HLA B27 antigen. Behcet's syndrome should be entertained in the radiological differentiation of sacro-iliitis with a clinical arthropathy.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001168:Arthritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002111:Calcaneus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012446:Sacroiliac Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging