[Spondylitis in the aged].

The spondylitis of the old patient is often late recognizable because of superposition with senile degeneration. The treatment is conform to the classical rules of musculoskeletal infections, after securing the diagnosis. The high risk of immobilisation in the age can be reduced by the operative therapy, but on the other hand must be an acceptance of the operative risk. Last named is very small, if the team is good acquainted with his work, accordingly short length of operation-time and without big histological lesions.