I. A. Brodsky. Spondylose rhizomelique, as a separate nosological entity. — Medical Review. 1910. № 8

Abstract

Under the name spondylose rhizomelique, stiffness, cyphose heredo-traumatique, Bechterew's disease, a disease is described with symptoms of stiffness, immobility, ankylosis of the spine and large joints, and mobility in the shoulder and pelvic girdle is rarely affected. The disease appears after a cold, acute febrile illness, malaria and is characterized by the appearance of gradually increasing pain. Then there is a feeling of stiffness, heaviness of the whole body and symptoms from the spine and joints. Bekhterev considers heredity, trauma and lues to be the etiological moment.

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