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Case Reports
. 1981 Nov;80(5):641-2.
doi: 10.1378/chest.80.5.641.

Cricoarytenoid arthritis in ankylosing spondylitis. A cause of acute respiratory failure and cor pulmonale

D M Libby, W S Schley, J P Smith
Case Reports

Cricoarytenoid arthritis in ankylosing spondylitis. A cause of acute respiratory failure and cor pulmonale

D M Libby et al. Chest. 1981 Nov.

Abstract

A man with ankylosing spondylitis developed cor pulmonale and acute respiratory failure due to cricoarytenoid arthritis. He was successfully treated by endoscopic arytenoidectomy, and the surgical specimen showed ossified cartilage. Flow-volume curves documented extra-thoracic airway obstruction produced by ankylosis of the cricoarytenoid joints.

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