title: [RS3PE associated with tuberculosis].
abstract: The remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema of the elderly patient with edema and fovea (RS3PE), characterizes for the appearance of one polyarthritis symmetrical with fovea in the back of the hands, and negative reumatoideal factor. The association to tuberculosis had not been described before. One presents the case of a 89-year-old patient who consulted for anorexia of month and a half of evolution accompanied of edema in hands and feet, with negative reumatoideal factor. He was presenting a pulmonary infiltrated, which microbiological study revealed the infection for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital de Santa María, Lleida. fnicolas@comll.cat
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Nicolás-Sánchez
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Rozadilla Sacanell
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Gort Oromí
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Torres Cortada
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Soler Rosell
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Sarrat-Nuevo
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Nicolás-Sánchez
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cabau-Rubies
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004487:Edema / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013585:Synovitis / Q000209:etiology*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications*