A treatise on orthopedic surgery . |-:^ J P Spondylitis deformans, stiowing the characteristic curvature of the spine. Ageof the patient, twenty-three years. Duration of the disease three years; causeunlinown. No other joints involved. and melos, extremity), signifying a disease of the spine togetherwith the adjoining root joints.^ 3. The disease may be limited to the spine, and in such casesit appears to be clinically distinct from characteristic generalarthritis or atrophic or hypertrophic arthritis. It may followacute polyarthritis, it may be induced apparently by gonorrhoeaor by other form
A treatise on orthopedic surgery . |-:^ J P Spondylitis deformans, stiowing the characteristic curvature of the spine. Ageof the patient, twenty-three years. Duration of the disease three years; causeunlinown. No other joints involved. and melos, extremity), signifying a disease of the spine togetherwith the adjoining root joints.^ 3. The disease may be limited to the spine, and in such casesit appears to be clinically distinct from characteristic generalarthritis or atrophic or hypertrophic arthritis. It may followacute polyarthritis, it may be induced apparently by gonorrhoeaor by other forms of infection, or by injury— traumatic sjDon-^ Marie, Eevue de Med., 1898, vol. xviii. 136 OBTHOPEDIC SUBGEBY. dylitis. It may begin acutely, or it may be chronic in charac-ter and progress slowly.^ It may be limited to a particular sec-tion of the spine, although, as a rule, the other regions areprogressively involved. Fig. 82. Fig. Spondylitis deformans, illus-trating the characteristic deform-ity. Age of the patient, thirtyyears. Spine rigid, with the ex-ception of the occipitoaxoid artic-ulation. Duration two years;cause unknown. No joints in-volved.
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