Chronic alcohol consumption as a predisposing factor for multiple tendon ruptures in unusual sites in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 461-463

  Bourikas, Leonidas A ^a   Kritikos, Heraklis D ^a   Papakostantinou, Olympia G ^a   Katsikas, Georgios A ^a   Boumpas, Dimitrios T ^a   Sidiropoulos, Prodromos I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alcohol; IGF; Rheumatoid arthritis; Tendon rapture

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLOSPORIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; ELBOW DISEASE; FOOT EDEMA; HAND EDEMA; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; KNEE INJURY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEGALOCYTOSIS; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MYOSITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPENIA; PATELLA TENDON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID NODULE; RISK FACTOR; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENDON RUPTURE;

ALCOHOLISM; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TENDON INJURIES;

EID: 34447637988     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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