Spontaneous multiple insufficiency fractures after pelvic abscess and sepsis in a rheumatoid arthritis patient treated with high-load corticosteroid therapy: A case report

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1925-1928

  Mochizuki, Takeshi ^a   Momohara, Shigeki ^a   Ikari, Katsunori ^a   Kawamura, Kouichiro ^a   Tsukahara, So ^a   Iwamoto, Takuji ^a   Kobayashi, Shu ^a   Okamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Nishimoto, Kazumasa ^a   Tomatsu, Taisuke ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid; Insufficiency fracture; Pelvic abscess; Rheumatoid arthritis; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; BUCILLAMINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM; CORTICOSTEROID; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; GOLD; LEFLUNOMIDE; MENATETRENONE; METHOTREXATE; PENICILLAMINE; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED OSTEOPOROSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; HUMAN; ORTHOSIS; PELVIS ABSCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEPSIS; STRESS FRACTURE; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BONE AND BONES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; SEPSIS; SULFASALAZINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34948819748     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-007-0535-z     Document Type: Article

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