Inflammation surrounding the vertebral spinous processes as spondylarthritis in Behçet's disease.
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.
Division of Rheumatic Diseases, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, 1-21-1 Toyama, Shinjuku, Tokyo 162-8655, Japan. hiroyuki_yjp2005@yahoo.co.jp
Hiroyuki
H
Yamashita
Kazuo
K
Kubota
Yuko
Y
Takahashi
Hiroshi
H
Kaneko
Toshikazu
T
Kano
Akio
A
Mimori
D000368:Aged; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013131:Spine / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D025241:Spondylarthritis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging