Our data revealed a high prevalence of ankylosing spondylitis, axial spondyloarthritis, and inflammatory back pain 20 years after the IBD diagnosis. HLA-B27 but not NOD-2 was a predisposing factor for the inflammatory back disorders in IBD patients. Axial spondyloarthritis was associated with a more chronic active IBD disease course.
This randomized clinical trial compares the effectiveness of 3 minimally invasive posterior decompression techniques for lumbar spinal stenosis at 16 public hospitals in Norway.
There have been very few reports of severe complications accompanied by wire localization of breast lesions, such as transsection of the wire and wire migration to the extramammary sites. This is a report of wire migration into the pulmonary hilus demanding surgical removal.
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