Bilateral TMJ Involvement in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic inflammatory, slowly progressive disease that results in cartilage and bone destruction. Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) involvement is not uncommon in RA, and it is present in about more than 50% of patients; however, TMJ is usually among the last joints to be...

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Autores principales: Ruparelia, Pritesh B., Shah, Deep S., Ruparelia, Kosha, Sutaria, Shreyansh P., Pathak, Deep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24804125
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/262430
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author Ruparelia, Pritesh B.
Shah, Deep S.
Ruparelia, Kosha
Sutaria, Shreyansh P.
Pathak, Deep
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description Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic inflammatory, slowly progressive disease that results in cartilage and bone destruction. Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) involvement is not uncommon in RA, and it is present in about more than 50% of patients; however, TMJ is usually among the last joints to be involved and is associated with many varied clinical signs and symptoms. Hence, RA of TMJ presents to the dentist with great diagnostic challenges. This report presents a case of RA with bilateral TMJ involvement with its classical radiographic findings and review literature.
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spelling pubmed-39968942014-05-06 Bilateral TMJ Involvement in Rheumatoid Arthritis Ruparelia, Pritesh B. Shah, Deep S. Ruparelia, Kosha Sutaria, Shreyansh P. Pathak, Deep Case Rep Dent Case Report Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic inflammatory, slowly progressive disease that results in cartilage and bone destruction. Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) involvement is not uncommon in RA, and it is present in about more than 50% of patients; however, TMJ is usually among the last joints to be involved and is associated with many varied clinical signs and symptoms. Hence, RA of TMJ presents to the dentist with great diagnostic challenges. This report presents a case of RA with bilateral TMJ involvement with its classical radiographic findings and review literature. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3996894/ /pubmed/24804125 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/262430 Text en Copyright © 2014 Pritesh B. Ruparelia et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ruparelia, Pritesh B.
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Bilateral TMJ Involvement in Rheumatoid Arthritis
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title_fullStr Bilateral TMJ Involvement in Rheumatoid Arthritis
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