TEMPORAL ARTERITIS PRESENTING AS A SYMMETRICAL PERIPHERAL POLYARTHRITIS

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...

Primary Systemic Al Amyloidosis Presenting as Temporal Arteritis

Temporal arteritis is most common vasculitis in elderly and imitated by miscellaneous disorders. Temporal artery biopsy is the gold standard test in the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA). Hereby, we describe a case of a 67-year-old man who presented initially with temporal arteritis; however, a lip biopsy then revealed AL amyloidosis. In this respect, temporal artery biopsy should be perf...

Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the temporal artery presenting as temporal arteritis: case report and literature review

Dina El Demellawy, Ahmed Nasr, Salem Alowami University of Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Thunder Bay, William Osler Health Care-Brampton Civic Hospital, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brampton, Ontario, Canada; University of Toronto, Department of Surgery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; McMaster University, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Hamilton, Ontario, C...

Symmetrical polyarthritis is not always rheumatoid.

Chronic myeloid leukaemia in a child presenting as acute polyarthritis.

It is well known that recurrent polyarthritis may occur in leukaemia of childhood, either as a presenting feature or during the course of the disease. The clinical picture, which often suggests rheumatic fever, has frequently been reported (Aisner and Hoxie, 1948; Baldridge and Awe, 1930; Poynton and Lightwood, 1932) and well reviewed by Dresner (1950). Many of these cases were of acute or suba...