Multiple extensor tendon ruptures caused by tophaceous gout

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 210-212

  Iwamoto, Takuji ^a   Toki, Hiroe ^a   Ikari, Katsunori ^a   Yamanaka, Hisashi ^a   Momohara, Shigeki ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extensor tendon rupture; Gout; Tophaceous gout

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAST APPLICATION; EXTENSOR TENDON; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; GOUT; HAND MUSCLE; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCISION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TENDON; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENDON RUPTURE; WRIST;

FEMALE; GOUT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TENDON INJURIES; TENDON TRANSFER; TENOSYNOVITIS;

EID: 77954758202     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-009-0258-x     Document Type: Article

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