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Turkish Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
2021 , Vol 67 , Num 1
Undifferentiated connective tissue disease presenting with optic neuritis and concomitant axial spondyloarthritis: A rare case report
1 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Health Sciences, Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
DOI :
10.5606/tftrd.2021.4909
Undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD) represents a group of diseases which do not fulfill the criteria of rheumatologic diseases
or may be considered as an early stage of any of these diseases. Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a disease accompanied by symptoms of
inflammatory low back pain and peripheral symptoms, with more spine and sacroiliac joint involvement. In this report, we, for the first
time, present a case of UCTD presenting with axSpA in whom the initial finding was optic neuritis, which is rarely seen in UCTD.
Keywords :
Axial spondyloarthritis, enthesitis, heel pain, optic neuritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, ultrasonography, undifferentiated connective tissue disease