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B Delcambre

Publications and source records attributed to B Delcambre.

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PubMed1976

[Joint manifestations of Whipple's disease].

Of all the signs of Whipple's disease, the joint manifestations are among the most constant and the earliest to indicate the enteropathy, appearing long before the digestive and general signs. Essentially they consist of painful, peripheral joint manifestations: either simple arthralgia, or true arthritis differing in the degree of pain, the degree of the clinical signs accompanying the pain, the mode of evolution, and the number and the grouping of the joints affected, thus occurring in numerous clinical forms of which the two principal ones are subacute oligoarthritis with a tendency to migrate and chronic polyarthritis that gives rise to few definitive deformations. The radiographic appearance is usually normal. There is nothing specific about the laboratory aspects of the inflammatory syndrome. Synovial histology may in some cases clarify the diagnosis by demonstration of histiocytes with positive PAS granulations. The axial joint manifestations, which are always associated with the preceding ones, are infrequent and practically limited to unilateral or bilateral sacro-iliac lesions, with little or no clinical expression, that are discovered by standard radiology. Jejunal biopsy can be the key to early diagnosis. The pathogenesis remains obscure. The treatment is the same as for Whipple's disease, long-term antibiotic therapy.

Adult↗
PubMed1976

[Sacro-iliac osteochondritis (author's transl)].

Sacro-iliac osteochondritis is difficult to recognize, it is rather frequently a case of diagnosis by elimination, which can be only confirmed by the course. Its prognosis is excellent. The predominance of lesions on the iliac edge reflects the affinity of this epiphysitis for the accessory iliac ossification point.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1975

[Value and limitatious of scintigraphy of the sacro-iliac joints using technetium pyrophosphate].

Scintigraphic exploration of the sacroiliac (S.I.) joints by 99 m-technetium pyrophosphate is simple and free of all danger. The fixation of the isotope in the right sacroiliac (R.S.I.) and the "normal" limits of the fixation ratios R.S.I./L.R. and the lumbar rachis (L.R.), visible on the same film. A series of 28 controls having made it possible to calculate the "normal" limits of the fixation ratios R.S.I./L.R. and L.S.I./L.R., the isotopic fixation was measured in 25 patients with sacroiliac inflammation, 21 of whom were rheumatic, 3 infectious. It was shown that scintigraphy could yield useful information on the evolution of sacroiliac inflammation, making an early diagnosis possible, and also contributing to differentiation between rheumatic and infectious inflammation.

Adult↗