title: [Sore throat in rheumatoid arthritis: 2 patients with cricoarytenoid arthritis].
abstract: In two patients with chronic rheumatoid arthritis, a woman aged 65 and a man aged 56 years, cricoarytenoid arthritis was diagnosed. The symptoms were hoarseness, sore throat and stridor. In both patients a narrowed glottic fissure was found. In one patient tracheostomy was necessary to guarantee a free airway; in the other, therapy with local corticosteroid injections (triamcinolone), combined with immunosuppressive therapy (prednisone), was effective. Early detection through anamnesis and laryngoscopy allows early therapy with a good prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Ziekenhuis De Heel, afd. Chirurgie, Zaandam.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Jol
authors.forename: G W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: van Deelen
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Dinant
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D003413:Cricoid Cartilage; D005260:Female; D006685:Hoarseness / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007818:Laryngeal Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010612:Pharyngitis / Q000209:etiology*; D012135:Respiratory Sounds / Q000209:etiology