A case of femoral nerve palsy caused by iliopectineal bursitis associated with rheumatoid arthritis.
We report the case of a 46-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis who developed femoral nerve palsy caused by an enlarged iliopectineal bursa. Surgical excision revealed that the iliopectineal bursa was connected with the hip joint. The patient showed good recovery from the femoral nerve palsy after surgery. It was considered that iliopectineal bursitis had developed following the synovial inflammation of the hip joint.
Mori
Satoshi
S
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, 1750-1 Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa 761-0793, Japan. stmori@kms.ac.jp
Tamura
Tomoo
T
Komatsubara
Satoshi
S
Kawaguchi
Yoji
Y
Todo
Satoshi
S
Inoo
Masayuki
M
Kurata
Noriyuki
N
Norimatsu
Hiromichi
H