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2. Rheumatoid arthritis - Wikipedia

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   30,000 (2015) [ 4 ] Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term autoimmune disorder that primarily affects joints. [ 1 ] It typically results in warm, swollen, and painful joints. [ 1 ] Pain and stiffness often worsen following rest. [ 1 ] Most commonly, the wrist and hands are involved, with the same joints typically involved on both sides of the ...

3. Protrusio acetabuli - Wikipedia

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   Protrusio acetabuli is an uncommon defect of the acetabulum, the socket that receives the femoral head to make the hip joint. The hip bone of the pelvic bone /girdle is composed of three bones, the ilium, the ischium and the pubis. In protrusio deformity, there is medial displacement of the femoral head in that the medial aspect of the femoral ...

4. Synovectomy - Wikipedia

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   Synovectomy is the surgical removal of the synovial tissue surrounding a joint. This procedure is typically recommended to provide relief from a condition in which the synovial membrane or the joint lining becomes inflamed and irritated and is not controlled by medication alone. If arthritis (inflammation of the joint) is not controlled, it can ...

5. Palindromic rheumatism - Wikipedia

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   Palindromic rheumatism (PR) is a syndrome characterised by recurrent, self-resolving inflammatory attacks in and around the joints, and consists of arthritis or periarticular soft tissue inflammation. [1] The course is often acute onset, with sudden and rapidly developing attacks or flares. There is pain, redness, swelling, and disability of ...

6. Ankylosing spondylitis - Wikipedia

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   Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a type of arthritis from the disease spectrum of axial spondyloarthritis. [ 5 ] It is characterized by long-term inflammation of the joints of the spine, typically where the spine joins the pelvis. [ 2 ] With AS, eye and bowel problems—as well as back pain—may occur. [ 2 ]

7. Ankylosis - Wikipedia

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   Ankylosis (from Greek ἀγκύλος (ankulos) 'bent, crooked') is a stiffness of a joint due to abnormal adhesion and rigidity of the bones of the joint, which may be the result of injury or disease. The rigidity may be complete or partial and may be due to inflammation of the tendinous or muscular structures outside the joint or of the ...