Giant geode at the olecranon in the rheumatoid elbow - Two case reports

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 358-361

  Nakagawa, Natsuko ^a   Abe, Shuji ^a   Saegusa, Yasuhiro ^a   Kimura, Hiroshi ^a   Imura, Shigeaki ^a   Nishibayashi, Yasuro ^b   Yoshiya, Sinichi ^c  

^a Konan Kakogawa Hospital   (Japan)

^b Miki Sanyo Hospital   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elbow; Geode; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; ELBOW RADIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; OLECRANON FRACTURE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVECTOMY;

EID: 4444372387     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-004-0892-9     Document Type: Article

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