Scintigraphic Evidence of Transient Unilateral Sacroiliitis in a Case of Whippleʼs Disease

Investigation of low back pain by quantitative sacroiliac joint scintigraphy (QSS) can detect the presence of sacroiliitis not apparent by roentgenography. Transient unilateral sacroiliitis was documented by QSS in a patient with Whippleʼs disease during tetracycline treatment, when the peripheral a...

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Published in:Clinical nuclear medicine 1980-12, Vol.5 (12), p.548-550
Main Authors: HO, GEORGE, CLAUNCH, BEN C, SADOVNIKOFF, NICHOLAS
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arthritis - diagnostic imaging
Diphosphonates
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Radionuclide Imaging
Sacroiliac Joint - diagnostic imaging
Technetium
Time Factors
Whipple Disease - diagnostic imaging
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Summary:Investigation of low back pain by quantitative sacroiliac joint scintigraphy (QSS) can detect the presence of sacroiliitis not apparent by roentgenography. Transient unilateral sacroiliitis was documented by QSS in a patient with Whippleʼs disease during tetracycline treatment, when the peripheral arthropathy was in remission. Thus, the pattern of inflammatory spinal disease, if associated with the intestinal disease, differs from that of the peripheral arthritis.
ISSN:0363-9762
1536-0229
DOI:10.1097/00003072-198012000-00005