[Post-traumatic resorption of a vertebral body in a patient with spondylarthritis (author's transl)]. / Résorption post-traumatique d'un corps vertébral chez un spondylarthritique.

Rheumatoid pelvispondylitis in the lumbar spine can be the cause of a fracture of a vertebral body following usually minimal trauma. If no treatment is applied, a pseudo-arthrosis with severe bone resorption can occur. The whole vertebral body was affected in this way in the case reported.