Jacques Forestier's vanished bowstring sign in ankylosing spondylitis: A call to test its validity and possible relation to spinal myofascial hypertonicity

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 760-766

  Masi, Alfonse T ^a   Sierakowski, Stanislaw ^b   Kim, Jeehun Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^c UICOMP   (United States)

Author keywords

Ankylosing spondylitis; Bowstring sign; Dorsolumbar muscles; Electromyography; Jacques Forestier; Myofascial hypertonicity

Indexed keywords

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; BONE BOWING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KINESIOLOGY; MEDLINE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MYOELECTRICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SPINE MOBILITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING;

EID: 29944441046     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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