title: Pancreatitis arthritis with periarticular fat necrosis.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ferrari
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wendelboe
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Ford
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Corbett
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Anastassiades
mesh_terms: 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*