Hypogammaglobulinemic patient with polyarthritis mimicking rheumatoid arthritis finally diagnosed as septic arthritis caused by Mycoplasma hominis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 425-429

  Sato, Hiroe ^a   Iino, Noriaki ^a   Ohashi, Riuko ^a   Saeki, Takako ^b   Ito, Tomoyuki ^b   Saito, Maki ^a   Tsubata, Yutaka ^a   Yamamoto, Suguru ^a   Murakami, Shuichi ^a   Kuroda, Takeshi ^a   Tanabe, Yoshinari ^a   Fujisawa, Junichi ^a   Murai, Takehiro ^a   Nakano, Masaaki ^c   Narita, Ichiei ^a   Gejyo, Fumitake ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NAGAOKA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Erosions; Hypogammaglobulinemia; Mycoplasma hominis; Rheumatoid arthritis; Septic arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD3 ANTIGEN; ETANERCEPT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; JOINT BIOPSY; JOINT SWELLING; MALE; MENINGITIS; MORNING STIFFNESS; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYARTHRITIS; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; SYNOVITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FINGER JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS;

EID: 84863402181     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.6058     Document Type: Article

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