[Sympathetic arthritis. A contribution to plasma cell osteomyelitis (author's transl)].
Sympathetic arthritis is a sterile, non-pyogenic complication due to adjacent bone disease, particularly chronic inflammatory osteomyelitis. Radiologically it is manifested as an arthrosis or serous arthritis (painful effusion), or as a chronic destructive arthitis. In the latter case, there is a lymphatic and plasma cell synovitis which may persist, clinically and radiologically, for a period of months or years before definite radiological signs of a chronic osteomyelitis become apparent. Observations of patients with plasma cell osteomyelitis and chronic destructive sympathetic arthritis indicate a special set of findings due to plasma cell osteomyelitis: metadiaphyseal ossifying periostitis, extreme demineralisation of the adjacent epiphysis with spotty focal sclerosis of the spongiosa and a chronic arthritis.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001168:Arthritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D005270:Femur Head / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010522:Periostitis / Q000209:etiology; D011859:Radiography
Die sympathische Arthritis-Beitrag zur Plasmazellenosteomyelitis.