BACKGROUND Ulcerative colitis(UC)is an idiopathic,chronic inflammatory bowel disease(IBD)most often located in the rectum,but may involve the entire colon.Extra intestinal manifestations(EIMs)occur with varying freque...
The institutional review board of National Cheng Kung University Hospital approved this study(No.B-ER-105-108).
Seronegative spondyloarthropathy(SpA)usually starts in the third decade of life with negative rheumatoid factor,human leukocyte antigen-B27 genetic marker and clinical features of spinal and peripheral arthritis,dacty...
BACKGROUND Ankylosing spondylitis(AS)is strongly associated with the human leukocyte antigen(HLA)B27 haplotype.In regions where conventional polymerase chain reaction for HLA typing is available for antigens such as H...
Spine is a complex and long structure in the human body. Visualization of the spine is essential to treat and manage spine disease and commonly requires further imaging modalities such as computed tomography (CT) and ...
Objectives: To determine if comparative practice data and education for rheumatologists would change physician behavior for monitoring and treating psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and spondyloarthritis (SpA). Methods: Parti...
Joint pain is one of the most frequent indications to visit a family practitioner. Standard therapy using analgesics is not always successful in alleviating the pain. Physical exam and readily available laboratory tes...
To the editor: A 55-year-old woman was admitted to orthopaedics department in our hospital with a 3-month history of severe low backache and difficulty in walking in June 2010. Physical examination revealed restricte...
Joint involvement is the most common extraintestinal manifestation in children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and may involve 16%-33% of patients at diagnosis or during follow-up. It is possible to distinguish ...
Erosive osteoarthritis is a term utilized to describe a specific inflammatory condition of the interphalangeal and first carpal metacarpal joints of the hands. The term has become a part of medical philosophical seman...
Expansion of diagnostic criteria for rheumatoid arthritis and deletion of exceptions increases sensitivity, but at the expense of specificity.Two decades later, modification of criteria included the caveat: "absence o...