A rare cause of dysphagia: compression of the esophagus by an anterior cervical osteophyte due to ankylosing spondylitis
İlknur Albayrak, Sinan Bağcacı, Ali Sallı, Sami Kucuksen, Hatice Uğurlu
Korean J Intern Med. 2013;28(5):614-618. Published online August 14, 2013
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory rheumatological disease affecting the axial skeleton with various extra-articular complications. Dysphagia due to a giant anterior osteophyte of the cervical spine in AS is extremely rare. We present a 48-year-old male with AS suffering from p..
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