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Ankylosing spondylitis in a patient with Turner syndrome: a case report.

Armagan O, Ekim A, Dinc A, Oner C

Departments of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Eskisehir Osmangazi University Medical School, Meselik Campus, 26480, Eskisehir, Turkey, aoarmagan@superonline.com.

Turner's syndrome (TS) is a chromosomal disorder where phenotypic females have either a missing chromosome (45 X0) or a structural aberration of one of the chromosomes. It is possible for TS to accompany such autoimmune diseases as thyroid diseases, inflammatory intestinal diseases, diabetes mellitus, psoriatic arthritis and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Herein, we present an unusual case with Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and autoimmune thyroiditis associated with TS. We suggest that the possibility that TS patients may also develop such other diseases as AS apart from the already known accompanying autoimmune diseases should not be ruled out when monitoring TS patients.

Published 6 September 2007 in Rheumatol Int, 27(12): 1177-80.
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