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Juvenile spondyloarthritis (SpA) affects patients below the age of 16 and mainly presents with peripheral involvement. Many atypical clinical presentations were reported in the adult SpA, but not in the juvenile group. We report a case of non-radiographic axial SpA in a 14-year-old girl presented
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Both MRI and plain radiography are used to assess sacroiliitis. A weakness of radiography - apart from its inability to detect early disease - is reader variability. On the contrary, experience with MRI is relatively limited by comparison.
RESULTS
This review summarizes recent advances in
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an inflammatory autoimmune disorder that manifested with sacroiliitis at its early stage and developed extensive inflammation with syndesmophytes of the lumbar, thoracic and cervical spines at its later stage. In the present study, we characterized the A 41-year-old man presented with vertigo and gait disturbance. He gave a 10-year history of definite ankylosing spondylitis with low back pain, limitation of spinal mobility, decreased chest expansion and radiological evidence of bilateral sacroiliitis. The vertigo attacks started 3 years before and
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Brucellosis is an important disease in developing countries. We aimed to determine the epidemiologic, clinical, and laboratory characteristics of brucellosis, which still has a high morbidity in Turkey.
METHODS
Seventy-two patients with brucellosis, monitored at our clinic from January
Brucellosis is a zoonotic infection, which is still a major public health concern worldwide. Common clinical findings are usually nonspecific involving fever, arthralgia, myalgia, weakness and malaise. Since none of the symptoms of brucellosis is pathognomonic, it may have a similar course with
Brucellosis is an endemic disease in developing countries. The most commonly observed complications include bone-joint involvement, particularly sacroiliitis and spondylitis. Epidural abscesses caused by brucellosis are a rare complication. We describe the case of a 33-year-old man presenting with
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To report a case of ankylosing spondylitis that initially presented as unilateral optic neuritis.
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Case report.
METHODS
Clinical findings and treatment are presented. A 31-year-old woman presented with unilateral optic neuritis in her right eye. Her symptom improved following pulse
SAPHO (synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, and osteitis) syndrome includes both dermatological and rheumatologic symptoms. Being a rare condition, the diagnosis is frequently late. The authors report a case of a 13-year-old boy diagnosed with synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, and
Background: We report a case of a 30-year-old patient who presented with acute Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection that was complicated by reactive arthritis and asymmetric proximal myopathy and progressed to chronic spondyloarthropathy.