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01-10-2017 | Editorial
Enthesis as a target organ in rheumatic diseases: an expanding frontier
Authors:
Gleb Slobodin, Itzhak Rosner
Published in:
Clinical Rheumatology
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Issue 10/2017
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Excerpt
Enthesopathy refers to the involvement of the entheses in any pathological process, whether inflammatory, metabolic, traumatic, or degenerative, and has been well recognized as a feature of a variety systemic rheumatic disorders [
1]. In clinical practice, enthesopathy is frequently a secondary or subordinate issue. Recent data cast a new light on the role of enthesopathy in the large body of rheumatic disorders. …