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Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic, progressive inflammatory rheumatic disease involving primarily the sacroiliac joints and the axial skeleton. The main clinical features are back pain and progressive stiffness of the spine. Oligoarthritis of the hips and shoulders, enthesopathy, and anterior uveitis are common, and involvement of the heart and...

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Last Updated: December 6, 2006
Synonyms and related keywords: ankylosing spondylitis, undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy, Marie-Strümpell disease, von Bechterew disease, von Bechterew's disease, spondyloarthropathies, SpAs, AS, rheumatoid spondylitis, USpA, peripheral enthesitis, sacroiliitis, Schober test, cauda equina syndrome, dactylitis, European Spondyloarthropathy Study Group criteria, Amor criteria, New York criteria, Rome criteria,...

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Synonyms and related keywords: ankylosing spondylitis, Marie-Strümpell arthritis, Bechterew disease, spondyloarthritis, spondyloarthropathy, chronic inflammatory conditions, AS, inflammation of the joints, inflammation of the tendons, inflammation of the ligaments, iritis, uveitis, aortitis, pulmonary fibrosis, amyloidosis, inflammatory bowel disease
Author: Alan Schaffert, MD, Past Chief of Staff, Doctor's Medical Center of Modesto;...

Authors: S Craig Humphreys, MD, Jason C Eck, DO, MS, Scott D Hodges, DO
Contents - Introduction Clinical Differentials Workup Treatment Medication Follow-up Miscellaneous Pictures Bibliography
Synonyms and related keywords: AS, Marie-Strumpell disease, von Bechterew disease, rheumatoid spondylitis, seronegative spondyloarthropathy, reactive arthritis, psoriasis, juvenile chronic arthritis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn disease, Crohn's...

Author: Wilfred CG Peh, MBBS, MHSM, MD, FRCPE, FRCPG, FRCR, Clinical Professor, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore; Senior Consultant Radiologist, Programme Office, Singapore Health Services
Contents - Introduction Differentials Radiograph CT Scan MRI Nuclear Medicine Intervention Pictures Bibliography
Ankylosing spondylitis is a distinct disease entity characterized by inflammation of multiple...

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Overview of this spinal arthritic condition includes anatomy (with diagrams), causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options. Commercial

Disussion:

- patients with ankylosing spondylitis are prone to C-spine fracture following minor trauma;
- acute neck pain in a patient with ankylosing spondylitis is usually caused by a fracture through the ankylosed spine;
- site of involvement...

A patient with thirty years history of ankylosing spondylitis sustained a head and neck injury after a fall.He was transmitted to the emergency department .His GCS was 15 with no findings in neurological examination.He had x-rays of the head and neck which considered normal and the patient discharged from the...

J Am Acad Orthop Surg, Vol 13, No 4, July/August 2005, 267-278. Full Text available to members. Abstract free
Erik N. Kubiak, MD, Ronald Moskovich, MD, Thomas J. Errico, MD and Paul E. Di Cesare, MD
Ankylosing spondylitis is an inflammatory disease of unknown etiology that affects an estimated 350,000 persons in...