Upper limb involvement in patients with Gaucher's disease.
Seventeen of 55 children and adolescents with Gaucher's disease presented with upper limb pain. Seven had nonspecific pain, 11 had bone crisis, and 2 had arthritis symptoms in the proximal interphalangeal joints. X-ray films of both hands showed osteopenia and thinning of the cortex in half of the patients.
Katz
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Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tiqva, Israel.
Horev
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Rivlin
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Kornreich
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Cohen
I J
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Gruenbaum
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Yosipovitch
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001132:Arm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005776:Gaucher Disease / Q000150:complications*; D006225:Hand / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography