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Ankylosing Spondylitis

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Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic progressive inflammatory disease, which primarily affects sacroiliac joints and axial skeleton with some extraarticular manifestations. Presented are basic pathophysiology, clinical findings, diagnostics, and treatment of AS.

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  1. Pain Management Department, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Aram Shahinyan & Samuel Samuel

  2. Department of Outcomes Research in Pain Management, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Lilit Margaryan

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA

    Alaa Abd-Elsayed

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Shahinyan, A., Margaryan, L., Samuel, S. (2019). Ankylosing Spondylitis. In: Abd-Elsayed, A. (eds) Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99124-5_265

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