Confusion With Presentations of Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Disease: A Report of Two Cases Mistaken for Cellulitis

Both pseudogout and cellulitis are diseases that may mimic one another in clinical practice. We discuss two cases of acute calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) arthritis mistaken for cellulitis in the emergency department. Both patients experienced significant improvement after management was chan...

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Autores principales: Rana, Masooma S, Raza, Mahanoor, Arif, Mobeena, Akinpelu, Taofeek, Waheed, Abdul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10008777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36923207
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34789
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author Rana, Masooma S
Raza, Mahanoor
Arif, Mobeena
Akinpelu, Taofeek
Waheed, Abdul
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description Both pseudogout and cellulitis are diseases that may mimic one another in clinical practice. We discuss two cases of acute calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) arthritis mistaken for cellulitis in the emergency department. Both patients experienced significant improvement after management was changed to treat CPPD. These cases highlight how it is essential for physicians to consider CPPD as a differential diagnosis for a patient that is presenting with signs of inflammation in any joint. 
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spelling pubmed-100087772023-03-14 Confusion With Presentations of Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Disease: A Report of Two Cases Mistaken for Cellulitis Rana, Masooma S Raza, Mahanoor Arif, Mobeena Akinpelu, Taofeek Waheed, Abdul Cureus Dermatology Both pseudogout and cellulitis are diseases that may mimic one another in clinical practice. We discuss two cases of acute calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) arthritis mistaken for cellulitis in the emergency department. Both patients experienced significant improvement after management was changed to treat CPPD. These cases highlight how it is essential for physicians to consider CPPD as a differential diagnosis for a patient that is presenting with signs of inflammation in any joint.  Cureus 2023-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10008777/ /pubmed/36923207 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34789 Text en Copyright © 2023, Rana et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Dermatology
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Confusion With Presentations of Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Disease: A Report of Two Cases Mistaken for Cellulitis
title Confusion With Presentations of Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Disease: A Report of Two Cases Mistaken for Cellulitis
title_full Confusion With Presentations of Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Disease: A Report of Two Cases Mistaken for Cellulitis
title_fullStr Confusion With Presentations of Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Disease: A Report of Two Cases Mistaken for Cellulitis
title_full_unstemmed Confusion With Presentations of Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Disease: A Report of Two Cases Mistaken for Cellulitis
title_short Confusion With Presentations of Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Disease: A Report of Two Cases Mistaken for Cellulitis
title_sort confusion with presentations of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate disease: a report of two cases mistaken for cellulitis
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10008777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36923207
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34789
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