Pancreatitis arthritis with periarticular fat necrosis.
We describe the case of a 76-year-old man hospitalized for 14 months because of a complicated hip fracture who developed pancreatitis and polyarthritis. He had no evidence of subcutaneous fat necrosis away from his joints and his pancreatitis was virtually asymptomatic otherwise. Polyarthritis is a rare complication of this disorder, and rarer still is polyarthritis without evidence of subcutaneous fat necrosis elsewhere.
Ferrari
R
R
Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Wendelboe
M
M
Ford
P M
PM
Corbett
W E
WE
Anastassiades
T P
TP
D000368:Aged; D001168:Arthritis / Q000209:etiology*; D005218:Fat Necrosis / Q000150:complications*; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007596:Joints; D008297:Male; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications*