title: Serous flexor tenosynovitis as an associated finding in meningococcal septic polyarthritis.
abstract: Flexor tenosynovitis complicating meningococcal septic polyarthritis may be sterile and could be misdiagnosed as disseminated gonococcal infection. Awareness of clinical findings associated with meningococcal polyarthritis is recommended to prevent onset of fulminant meningococcemia (Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome).
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Kingsley R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Chin
authors.forename: Bruce S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Koris
mesh_terms: D001170:Arthritis, Infectious / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008589:Meningococcal Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009345:Neisseria meningitidis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013582:Synovial Fluid / Q000382:microbiology; D013717:Tenosynovitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000628:therapy