[Etiologic aspects of low back pain in rheumatic patients in Kinshasa (Zaire). Apropos of 169 cases].

A study over a period of 27 consecutive months showed that among patients seen in a Kinshasa hospital outpatient clinic for rheumatologic diseases, 46.5% sought medical advice for lower back pain. Lumbar arthrosis (74.

[Osteoarthrosis, gout and arthritis rheumatoid in internal medicine in Kinshasa].

Rheumatic disorders are relatively rare among internal medicine out-patients in Kinshasa. Diseases encountered most often are osteoarthrosis, gout and rheumatoid arthritis. The authors report the relative incidence of these diseases and note that sites of osteoarthrosis are predominantly axial, that the clinical pattern of rheumatoid arthritis is less severe with the absence of abarticular manifestations and that gout, in contrast, does not differ from the classical features described in the literature.