It’s two years since Novartis got its Cosentyx IL-17 drug approved for the spinal disease ankylosing spondylitis, and the Swiss pharma company has new data that it hopes will allow it to compete ...

Spondyloarthritis (SpA), if not diagnosed and treated early, often leads to significant morbidity. Unfortunately, diagnosis and implementation of therapy are frequently delayed, in many cases by ...

Methods: The Stoke Ankylosing Spondylitis Spinal Score (SASSS) was modified by adding a score for the cervical spine and defining squaring. This modified SASSS (mSASSS) is the sum of the lumbar and ...

Comparison of laparoscopic radiofrequency ablation with percutaneous radiofrequency ablation in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B-related hepatocellular carcinoma involving specific sites: A ...

Correspondence to Dr Sylvain Mathieu, Rheumatology Department, Gabriel Montpied Teaching Hospital, 63003 Clermont-Ferrand, France; smathieu{at}chu-clermontferrand.fr We searched PubMed to find reports ...

The condition can occur in the cervical spine (neck), thoracic spine (mid back) or the lumbar spine (lower back). Cervical and lumbar stenosis are the most common forms, with lumbar spinal stenosis ...

Abstract Background Patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) experience reduced physical function and impaired quality of life. Better patient-reported functional outcomes are found when lower disease ...