A Case of Ankylosing Spondylitis with Spinal Metastasis of Cholangiocarcinoma / 대한류마티스학회지
The Journal of the Korean Rheumatism Association
;
: 81-85, 2010.
Article
in Korean
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| ID: wpr-82480
ABSTRACT
Back pain is the most common symptom of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The aggravation of back pain in AS patients is usually thought to be a flare-up of the disease activity. We report here on the case of a 31-year-old AS patient with low back pain. The lesions of this patient were unexpectedly diagnosed as metastatic spinal tumor due to cholangiocarcinoma. In a patient with AS, an acute aggravation of low back pain may be due to other pathologic conditions such as osteoporotic vertebral fracture, vertebral discitis and metastatic bone disease. Therefore, when a patient with AS presents with nonspecific low back pain, a physician should consider the above mentioned conditions.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Spondylitis, Ankylosing
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Bone Diseases
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Discitis
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Low Back Pain
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Back Pain
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Cholangiocarcinoma
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Neoplasm Metastasis
Limits:
Adult
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Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
The Journal of the Korean Rheumatism Association
Year:
2010
Type:
Article
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