Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
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Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd · Oct 1994
[Spondylodiscitis in Bechterew's disease; inflammation or trauma? Description of 6 patients].
To study the prevalence and nature of sterile spondylodiscitis in patients suffering from ankylosing spondylitis. ⋯ Spondylodiscitis in ankylosing spondylitis has a highly variable presentation and in general a good prognosis. Our findings support an inflammatory rather than a traumatic pathogenesis.