title: Sacroiliitis in systemic lupus erythematosus.
abstract: A 19-year-old white woman with severe systemic lupus erythematosus developed symptomatic sacroiliitis early in her disease. Over the next 14 years she showed radiological progression of sacroiliitis. She had neither HLA-DR3 nor B27 antigens. The rare coexistence of SLE and ankylosing spondylitis may not be determined solely by genetic factors; sacroiliitis may be just an infrequent manifestation of SLE.
authors.affiliation: Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kohli
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Bennett
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001168:Arthritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000150:complications*; D010388:Pelvis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012446:Sacroiliac Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed