An Unusual Case of Acute Chondrocalcinosis in Wrist Joint Presenting as Cellulitis

Chondrocalcinosis is a common arthritic disorder among elderly patients. We present a case of a 71-year-old woman presenting with an acute episode of the left forearm with hand swelling. A provisional diagnosis of cellulitis was made and the patient was started on intravenous antibiotics. The patien...

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Autores principales: Awan, Razia, Ghazanfar, Haider, Martes Pena, Karen A, Farkhad, Rafi I
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5800752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29441250
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1916
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author Awan, Razia
Ghazanfar, Haider
Martes Pena, Karen A
Farkhad, Rafi I
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description Chondrocalcinosis is a common arthritic disorder among elderly patients. We present a case of a 71-year-old woman presenting with an acute episode of the left forearm with hand swelling. A provisional diagnosis of cellulitis was made and the patient was started on intravenous antibiotics. The patient’s condition did not improve. Joint aspiration of the wrist joint was done and showed positive birefringent rhomboid-shaped crystals. A final diagnosis of acute chondrocalcinosis was made.
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spelling pubmed-58007522018-02-13 An Unusual Case of Acute Chondrocalcinosis in Wrist Joint Presenting as Cellulitis Awan, Razia Ghazanfar, Haider Martes Pena, Karen A Farkhad, Rafi I Cureus Dermatology Chondrocalcinosis is a common arthritic disorder among elderly patients. We present a case of a 71-year-old woman presenting with an acute episode of the left forearm with hand swelling. A provisional diagnosis of cellulitis was made and the patient was started on intravenous antibiotics. The patient’s condition did not improve. Joint aspiration of the wrist joint was done and showed positive birefringent rhomboid-shaped crystals. A final diagnosis of acute chondrocalcinosis was made. Cureus 2017-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5800752/ /pubmed/29441250 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1916 Text en Copyright © 2017, Awan et al. http://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.
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Awan, Razia
Ghazanfar, Haider
Martes Pena, Karen A
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An Unusual Case of Acute Chondrocalcinosis in Wrist Joint Presenting as Cellulitis
title An Unusual Case of Acute Chondrocalcinosis in Wrist Joint Presenting as Cellulitis
title_full An Unusual Case of Acute Chondrocalcinosis in Wrist Joint Presenting as Cellulitis
title_fullStr An Unusual Case of Acute Chondrocalcinosis in Wrist Joint Presenting as Cellulitis
title_full_unstemmed An Unusual Case of Acute Chondrocalcinosis in Wrist Joint Presenting as Cellulitis
title_short An Unusual Case of Acute Chondrocalcinosis in Wrist Joint Presenting as Cellulitis
title_sort unusual case of acute chondrocalcinosis in wrist joint presenting as cellulitis
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5800752/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1916
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