[Diagnostic image (57). Tenosynovial swelling with cholesterol crystals in rheumatoid arthritis].
In a 69-year-old female patient with erosive rheumatoid arthritis for 8 years, aspiration of a tenosynovial swelling on the dorsum of the right wrist yielded a puslike substance with many birefringent platelike cholesterol crystals.
Jacobs
J W
JW
Universitair Medisch Centrum, afd. Reumatologie en Klinische Immunologie, Postbus 85.500, 3508 GA Utrecht.
Bijlsma
J W
JW
D000368:Aged; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000737:chemistry*; D003460:Crystallization; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008859:Microscopy, Polarization; D013717:Tenosynovitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D014953:Wrist
D002784:Cholesterol
Diagnose in beeld (57). Tenosynoviale zwelling met cholesterolkristallen bij reumatoide artritis.