title: Psoriatic and seronegative inflammatory arthropathy associated with a traumatic onset: 4 cases and a review of the literature.
abstract: Although a relationship between psoriatic arthritis or other spondyloarthropathies and trauma is discussed in the literature and rheumatology textbooks, there are few well documented case reports that substantiate this association. We describe 3 patients who developed psoriatic arthritis and a 4th who developed unilateral spondyloarthropathy rapidly after trauma. The argument that the arthritis in these cases was precipitated by trauma rests upon the contiguous sequential temporal relationship between the 2 events and the onset of arthritis (and psoriasis) at the sites of trauma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA.
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authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sandorfi
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authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Freundlich
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001168:Arthritis / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology; D015535:Arthritis, Psoriatic / Q000209:etiology*; D016918:Arthritis, Reactive; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012446:Sacroiliac Joint / Q000473:pathology; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000150:complications*