Spondylodiscitis in spondylarthropathies [about 10 cases]

The involvement of enthesis like disc space is the typical lesion of spondylarthropathies. Out of 240 patients with spondylarthropathies, 10 [7 M, 3 W; mean age: 37 years] have spondylodiscitis, affecting a total of 13 disc spaces: 1 cervical, 2 thoracic, 10 number. The mean duration of spondylarthropathy at the time of diagnosis of spondylodiscitis is 10 years. Spondylodiscitis has a variable clinical pressntation: painful [6 cases], asymptomatic [4 cases]. Its coexistence with typical radiographic sings of spondylarthropathy added to the exclusion of bacterial origin, permit to link it to spondy, larthropathy. Its evolution is generally favorable