A case of calcinomatous polyarthritis presenting rheumatoid arthritis-like polyarthritis as the initial symptom of gastric cancer

Tuberculosis presenting as polyarthritis.

A 34 years female was referred with a history of intermittent low to high grade fever with characteristic evening rise alongwith joint pains. There was symmetrical involvement of both small and largejoints of the body overthe preceding 6 months, with deterioration over preceding month so much so that she could not walk and became bed bound. The patient reported that her joints were stiff on wak...

Polyarthritis as the presenting symptom of the occurrence and recurrence of a laryngeal carcinoma.

A 50 year old male smoker presented with an identical seronegative polyarthritis before both the occurrence and recurrence of a laryngeal tumour. The interval between the joint symptoms and discovery of the tumour was 11 and 13 months respectively. Treatment of the tumour resulted in complete disappearance of the arthritis on both occasions.

Rheumatoid arthritis or psoriatic symmetric polyarthritis? A difficult differential diagnosis.

Sarcoidosis presenting with polyarthritis.

Polyarthritis is a frequent presenting symptom in patients with sarcoidosis (Scadding, 1956; James, 1956). It is especially common in association with erythema nodosum; the combination of polyarthritis, erythema nodosum, and bilateral hilar adenopathy forming one of the distinctive syndromes of this disease (LUfgren, 1953; James, Thomson, and Willcox, 1956). Thus, Lofgren, in his series of 212 ...

A Seropositive Nodular Rheumatoid Polyarthritis without Arthritis: Does It Exist?

The rheumatoid polyarthritis is the most frequent chronic polyarthritis. It affects essentially the woman between 40 and 60 years. Rheumatic subcutaneous nodules and tenosynovitis are usually associated with seropositive symptomatic rheumatoid polyarthritis. It is, however, rare that they constitute the essential clinical expression of the disease. In this case, it makes dispute another excepti...