TY - JOUR
T1 - Ankylosing spondylitis
T2 - A common cause of low back pain
AU - Escalante, A.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - Ankylosing spondylitis should be a diagnostic consideration in young patients with back pain, particularly young men. Simple clinical methods can distinguish between back pain due to ankylosing spondylitis and back pain caused by other factors. Early diagnosis allows the clinician to prescribe anti-inflammatory therapy, to identify extra-articular involvement, and to provide counseling on the importance of maintaining proper posture. Perhaps more important, early diagnosis can avoid the costly and unnecessary diagnostic or therapeutic procedures that may be performed if back pain is misdiagnosed as mechanical.
AB - Ankylosing spondylitis should be a diagnostic consideration in young patients with back pain, particularly young men. Simple clinical methods can distinguish between back pain due to ankylosing spondylitis and back pain caused by other factors. Early diagnosis allows the clinician to prescribe anti-inflammatory therapy, to identify extra-articular involvement, and to provide counseling on the importance of maintaining proper posture. Perhaps more important, early diagnosis can avoid the costly and unnecessary diagnostic or therapeutic procedures that may be performed if back pain is misdiagnosed as mechanical.
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U2 - 10.1080/00325481.1993.11945685
DO - 10.1080/00325481.1993.11945685
M3 - Article
C2 - 8321769
AN - SCOPUS:0027225995
SN - 0032-5481
VL - 94
SP - 153
EP - 166
JO - Postgraduate medicine
JF - Postgraduate medicine
IS - 1
ER -