Radiodiagnosis of neurogenic osteoarthropathies

The paper is concerned with roentgenoanatomical analysis of the osteoarticular system in 607 patients with syringomyelia (21), tabes dorsalis (42), diabetes mellitus (324), psoriasis (187) and traumatic injuries of the spine and spinal marrow (33). In 58 patients osteoarthropathy was diagnosed. A study of the X-ray picture of osteoarthropathy revealed 2 types of disease: either with the prevalence of osteolytic or proliferative changes. The X-ray picture of osteoarthropathy was presented. The features of tabetic, syringomyelitic, diabetic and psoriatic arthropathies were described