01355nas a2200301   4500000000100000008004100001260001600042653002500058653001500083653001000098653002600108653001700134653001100151653001100162653001200173653000900185653001600194100001400210700001800224700001200242700001300254700001300267245006100280300001100341490000800352520067900360022001401039       1989                            d  c1989 May 2710aAcute-Phase Proteins10aAdolescent10aAdult10aArthritis, Infectious10aArthrography10aFemale10aHumans10aleprosy10aMale10aMiddle Aged1 aAtkin S L1 ael-Ghobarey A1 aKamel M1 aOwen J P1 aDick W C00aClinical and laboratory studies of arthritis in leprosy.  a1423-50 v2983 a<p>Arthritis associated with leprosy is underreported. In Egypt 66 patients from a leprosy colony were studied, 20 of whom had arthropathy. This was characterised by an inflammatory symmetrical peripheral polyarthritis. The wrist, metacarpal and proximal interphalangeal joints of the hands, the knees, and the metatarsophalangeal joints of the feet were affected with associated morning stiffness. The arthritis was erosive in 11 out of 20 patients, had no features of the arthritis associated with erythema nodosum leprosum reactions, but symptomatically responded to antileprosy treatment. This arthritis would seem to be a previously unrecognised feature of leprosy.</p>  a0959-8138