Ankylosing spondylitis

Author: Yan Xiaoping
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book compiles the essence of recent years' diagnosis and treatment of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) from both Chinese and Western medicine. It includes epidemiology, etiology and pathology, clinical manifestations, auxiliary examinations, and the understanding of this disease in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) both ancient and modern. It emphasizes the author's unique insights and distinctive diagnostic and treatment characteristics of this disease. The book summarizes Professor Yan Xiaoping's diagnostic features for AS, which are appropriately detailed and concise, with highlights, novel content, distinct features, and practicality. It is suitable for clinical practitioners of TCM, integrated Chinese and Western medicine at all levels, especially for rheumatology and immunology physicians for clinical reference. It is also suitable forAS patients for popularizing medical knowledge.