Pattern of ankylosing spondylitis in an Iranian population of 98 patients

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 309-315

  Nazarinia, Mohammad Ali ^a   Ghaffarpasand, Fariborz ^b   Heiran, Hamid Reza ^b   Habibagahi, Zahra ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b FASA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ankylosing spondylitis; Clinical findings; Fars Province; HLA B27; Iran

Indexed keywords

HLA B27 ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANKLE; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; ELBOW; ENTHESITIS; EYE DISEASE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HIP; HUMAN; IRAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KNEE; LEUKOPENIA; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORNING STIFFNESS; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEINURIA; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SACROILIITIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHOULDER; SPINAL PAIN; STERNOCLAVICULAR JOINT; THORACIC SPINE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; WRIST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HLA-B27 ANTIGEN; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349152315     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-009-0153-5     Document Type: Article

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