[Anatomo-pathological study of enthesopathies in inflammatory spondylarthropathies].

The authors report the pathological aspects observed in three peripheral entheses (spine of the scapula, talus and patella) of inflammatory spondylo-arthropathy (ISP). A mononuclear inflammatory infiltrate, more or less important, is found in all cases corroborating the rare findings in the literature. Until now, the anatomical study of ISPs was uneasy because of the difficult approach of the sacro-iliac joint and the spine due to their anatomical location.

[Sulfhydryl maintenance treatment in rheumatoid polyarthritis. A series of 120 cases followed for 10 years and a study of possibilities of changing the drug].

The authors present a series of 120 cases of sero-positive rheumatoid arthritis followed for ten years and treated with D-penicillamine, gold salts and pyrithioxine used either alone or sequentially after stopping one of these treatments because of failure, intolerance or escape. This series can be broken down as follows: 13% of patients are under treatment after ten years, 27% had a favourable result with one of the three treatments for five to ten years, 59% had a poor result (less than 5 years) or no effect. However, it appeared that a failure or an escape from one of these products did not signify a failure with another product and side effects did not necessarily recur with a change of treatment.

[Systematic research on enthesopathies in chronic rheumatism. Results and pathological significance. Relation to erosive spondylitis and other tendinous or synovial lesions].

A routine investigation for rheumatic tendon lesions was conducted in 47 patients with an inflammatory spondylo-arthropathy and in 30 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The incidence of tendon lesions (calcaneal and extra-calcaneal) differed very significantly (p less than 0.001) between the two groups (58.

[Association of ankylosing spondylarthritis, cauda equina syndrome and dilatation of the lumbar cul-de-sac with voluminous arachnoid diverticulum. Clinical, radiological and tomodensitometric study of a case].

The authors report a clinical and radiological observation of cauda equina syndrome associated with ankylosing spondylitis. Although only 32 cases have been reported in the literature over the last twenty years, such an association is probably not exceptional. The mode of onset and the course of the neurological symptoms is quite similar from case to case: ankylosing spondylitis preexisting for many years, and inactive when neurological signs develop, the latter usually being very slowly progressive.