Psoriatic Arthritis (Subscribe)  

The medical records and radiographs of the hands, wrists, and feet of 50 patients with psoriatic arthritis and 34 with erosive osteoarthritis were reviewed. Polyarticular arthrutis in psoriatics is often unilateral and the joints of a single ray may be selectively affected. Their erosions ten to occur at the "bare...

CONCLUSIONS—Ultrasonography is an objective method in the confirmation of clinical diagnosis after physical examination. During the examination it is possible to gain not only qualitative but also quantitative data. A comparative study with quantitative data is possible in longitudinal studies.
Inflamed retrocalcaneal bursa and Achilles tendonitis in psoriatic arthritis demonstrated by...

types:
1. true psoriatic arthritis (1/3)
2. resembling rheumatoid arthritis (1/3)
3. combination of psoriatic and RA (1/3)
findings:
* no juxta-articular osteoporosis (unlike RA)
* periosteal reaction frequent
* assymetrical destruction of DIP with...

Psoriatic arthritis is a chronic inflammatory arthritis that is commonly associated with psoriasis. At least 5% of patients with psoriasis develop psoriatic arthritis. The association between psoriasis and arthritis was first made in the mid 19th century, but psoriatic arthritis was not clinically distinguished from rheumatoid arthritis until the 1960s....