Diseases of the joints, muscles and connective tissue (rheumatology)

This category covers diseases of the joints muscles and connective tissue with symptoms, causes, diagnostics, treatment options, and prevention basics.

Pancreatic Cancer Metastases: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis

Metastasis in pancreatic cancer means that tumor cells have spread beyond the primary site and formed new foci in other organs or tissues.

Chemotherapy for cervical cancer: when it's needed, how it's administered, and what's changing in modern treatment regimens

Chemotherapy for cervical cancer is not a one-size-fits-all approach. In some patients, it is used concurrently with radiation therapy as the primary definitive approach; in others, it is used after surgery for a high risk of recurrence; and in still others, it is used as part of systemic treatment for recurrence or metastatic disease.

Granulomatosis with polyangiitis: symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis

Granulomatosis with polyangiitis is a rare systemic vasculitis in which inflammation predominantly affects small and medium-sized vessels.

Facial Muscle Atrophy: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Modern Treatments

Facial muscle atrophy is not a separate universal disease, but a clinical syndrome in which the volume, strength, and functional activity of the facial or chewing muscles decrease.

Still's disease: symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis

The term "Still's disease" in adults usually refers to the adult form of the disease, which is called adult-onset Still disease in international literature.

Leukocytoclastic vasculitis: symptoms, diagnosis and treatment

Leukocytoclastic vasculitis is an inflammation of small vessels, primarily postcapillary venules, which at the histological level is characterized by neutrophilic infiltration of the vascular wall, fragmentation of neutrophil nuclei, fibrinoid damage to the vessel wall, and the release of erythrocytes into the surrounding tissue.

Dactylitis: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment in Adults and Children

Dactylitis is not a separate disease, but a clinical syndrome in which the entire finger or toe becomes inflamed and takes on a characteristic “sausage-shaped” appearance.

Sclerodactyly: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Modern Treatment Methods

Sclerodactyly is not a separate, independent disease, but a clinical symptom in which the skin of the fingers becomes dense, taut, less mobile, and seems to “pull” against the soft tissues.

Axial spondyloarthritis: symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis

Axial spondyloarthritis is a chronic immune-mediated inflammatory disease that primarily affects the sacroiliac joints and spine, but often extends beyond the axial skeleton.

Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis: symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis

In modern rheumatology and clinical immunology, the term "eosinophilic granulomatosis" usually refers to eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis - a rare systemic vasculitis of small and medium vessels, which combines bronchial asthma, pronounced blood eosinophilia, eosinophilic tissue inflammation and vasculitis itself.

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