© 1982 British Society for Rheumatology
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SPINE MANIFESTATIONS IN ESSENTIAL CROGLOBULINAEMIA
Department of Medicine 'D'and the Rheumatology Clinic, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Beilinson Medical Center Petah Tikva, Israel
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Requests for reprints to Prof. J. Pinkhas, Department of Medicine 'D', Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tikva 49100, Israel
Pain in the spinal region accompanied by small bony cysts or erosions of the vertebrae may occur in essential cryoglobulinaemia. In this study five of 20 patients with essential cryoglobulinaemia had spinal involvement presenting as pain and vertebral cysts or erosions.