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SAPHO syndrome: MR appearance of vertebral involvement
Authors:Laredo Jean-Denis  Vuillemin-Bodaghi Valerie  Boutry Nathalie  Cotten Anne  Parlier-Cuau Caroline
Affiliation:Department of Osteoarticular Radiology, H?pital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique-H?pitaux de Paris, 2 rue Ambroise Paré, 75475 Paris CEDEX, France. jean-denis.laredo@lrb.aphp.fr
Abstract:PURPOSE: To retrospectively evaluate the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging findings of vertebral involvement in patients with synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, and osteitis (SAPHO) syndrome. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Ethics committee approval and informed patient consent were not required for this retrospective study. MR images obtained in 12 patients (seven female, five male; mean age, 42 years; range, 16-65 years) with SAPHO syndrome involving the spine were reviewed. One vertebral lesion separated by one or more normal vertebrae was analyzed as a distinct lesion. For each lesion, the number of associated vertebrae with abnormal signal intensity (SI) (ie, single vertebra, two adjacent vertebrae, or more than two adjacent vertebrae) was noted. The following MR imaging findings were evaluated: cortical bone erosion, abnormal vertebral body SI compared with normal vertebral body SI, increased anteroposterior diameter of the vertebral body, soft-tissue involvement, vertebral body height loss of more than 30%, and abnormal SI of the adjacent intervertebral disk compared with the SI of the other disks. RESULTS: Of 24 vertebral lesions found, 17 involved a single vertebra, four involved two adjacent vertebrae, and three involved three or four adjacent vertebrae. Vertebral corner cortical erosion was present in all lesions, and 23 (96%) lesions had anterior vertebral corner involvement. The erosion was confined to a vertebral corner in five (21%) lesions and included the adjacent endplate and/or the anterior cortex of the vertebral body in the remaining 19 (79%) lesions. In four (17%) lesions, involvement of two adjacent vertebral corners on either side of an intervertebral disk mimicked to some extent early disk space infection. An adjacent disk space was narrowed in six (25%) lesions and exhibited abnormal SI in two (8%). Prevertebral tissue thickening was observed in eight (33%) lesions. CONCLUSION: Erosion of a vertebral body corner is consistently seen on MR images of SAPHO vertebral lesions and may support the diagnosis of SAPHO syndrome in the appropriate clinical context.
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