[Iliolumbar syndrome. A syndesmoperiostitis of the iliac crest. Clinical, radiologic and therapeutic summary. Diagnosis with lumbar sciatica. 440 cases].

The authors studied the files of 440 patients with low back pain over a period of 8 years. The constant absence of signs of lumbar sciatica led them to study the aetiology of such a pain. Pain in the ilio-lumbar ligament is due to the development of a syndesmo-periostitis (syndesmos = ligament) from the ligamentis continual traction on the postero-medial iliac crest.

[Radiological findings in the iliolumbar syndrome].

Radiological and clinical findings were compared in 440 patients with the iliolumbar syndrome, a frequently observed but often unrecognized affection. Anatomical and clinical features relating to the iliolumbar ligament, this illustrious unknown part of the body, are discussed, together with the pain syndromes that arise from it and which are often dissimulated under more familiar terms such as lumbosciatica, too frequently employed as an alibi. Original data concerning the radiological appearances in patients with this syndrome are presented.