Contracturing granulomatous myositis: a separate entity.

Contracturing granulomatous myositis: a separate entity.

Granulomatous muscle disease is most commonly seen in sarcoidosis, but may be seen in association with a wide variety of other disorders or in isolation. Patients with granulomatous myositis usually present with slowly progressive muscle pain and weakness affecting mainly proximal muscles. There are, however, a few reports of granulomatous muscle disease presenting with flexion contractures of ...

Unipolar Mania - a Separate Entity?

Twelve unipolar manics satisfying the inclusion criteria of having had three episodes of mania without a depressive episode were compared against bipolar manics on clinical psychopathology, demographic variables and family history of psychiatric morbidity. We Found no differences between the two groups on any of the variables studied and concluded that unipolar mania is clinically homogenous wi...

Tropical myositis: an underdiagnosed entity?

Tropical myositis is a condition characterised by the presence of suppurative lesions within skeletal muscles. There has been little agreement regarding the terminology various names used include purulent tropical myositis, tropical pyornyositis, tropical skeletal muscle abscess, spontaneous bacterial myositis or epidemic abscess. The earliest anecdotal reports of patients presenting both skele...

Odontocalcifying Odontogenic Cyst (cocao). a Separate Entity!!?

Gout in the elderly, a separate entity?

To evaluate whether the clinical pattern of gout differed between elderly women and men a retrospective study was performed in all women (22) and men (18) in our rheumatological clinics who developed gout after the age of 60. The diagnosis was made after a mean of 2.6 years of joint complaints in women and after 1.2 years in men. In about half the patients complaints started in more than one jo...