title: Achilles tendon rupture owing to rheumatoid disease. Case report with a nine-year follow-up.
abstract: Rheumatoid disease as a cause for achilles tendon rupture has been inferred but never reported to my knowledge. A patient with confirmed achilles tendon rupture from rheumatoid disease has been free from disease for nine years following tenoplasty and synoviobursectomy of the achilles tendon.
mesh_terms: D000125:Achilles Tendon / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012216:Rheumatic Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D000074402:Synovectomy