Enthesopathy: clinical recognition and significance.
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in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-119170
ABSTRACT
Enthesopathy is a common clinical finding denoting pathology at the 'entheses', i.e. attachment sites of muscles, tendons, joint capsules, ligaments and fascia to the bone. Inflammatory enthesopathy or enthesitis is a sine qua non of seronegative spondyloarthropathies (SSA). It can also be occupational, metabolic, drug induced, infective or degenerative. Bursitis closely mimics enthesitis. Ultrasound with high frequency transducers is a simple, cost-effective and feasible test to detect enthesopathy which is amenable to treatment with local steroid injections, physiotherapy and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, in addition to treatment of the primary disease. Unrecognized and untreated, it can lead to considerable morbidity.
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Index:
IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Humans
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Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
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Rheumatic Diseases
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Cost-Benefit Analysis
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Diagnosis, Differential
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
Language:
English
Year:
2001
Type:
Article
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