A rare cause of dysphagia: compression of the esophagus by an anterior cervical osteophyte due to ankylosing spondylitis

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory rheumatological disease affecting the axial skeleton with various extra-articular complications. Dysphagia due to a giant anterior osteophyte of the cervical spine in AS is extremely rare. We present a 48-year-old male with AS suffering from prog...

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Autores principales: Albayrak, İlknur, Bağcacı, Sinan, Sallı, Ali, Kucuksen, Sami, Uğurlu, Hatice
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2013
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3759770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24009460
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2013.28.5.614

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3759770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24009460
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2013.28.5.614

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