TY - JOUR KW - Arthritis, Infectious KW - Arthritis, Rheumatoid KW - Diagnosis, Differential KW - Female KW - Humans KW - leprosy KW - Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic KW - Middle Aged KW - Recurrence AU - Kuntz J L AU - Meyer R AU - Vautravers P AU - Kieffer D AU - Asch L AB -

Inflammatory rhumatisms simulating rheumatoid arthritis belong to the manifestations of the reactions of leprosy. Pathology of these arthritis variate with the type of reaction. In the present observations, it must probably be the transition from a tuberculoid leprosy to a lepromatosis form in which the immunological state looks like the lupus one.

BT - La semaine des hopitaux : organe fonde par l'Association d'enseignement medical des hopitaux de Paris C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/231307?dopt=Abstract DA - 1979 Dec 8-15 IS - 41-42 J2 - Sem Hop LA - fre N2 -

Inflammatory rhumatisms simulating rheumatoid arthritis belong to the manifestations of the reactions of leprosy. Pathology of these arthritis variate with the type of reaction. In the present observations, it must probably be the transition from a tuberculoid leprosy to a lepromatosis form in which the immunological state looks like the lupus one.

PY - 1979 SP - 1889 EP - 92 T2 - La semaine des hopitaux : organe fonde par l'Association d'enseignement medical des hopitaux de Paris TI - [Polyarthritis in leprosy (author's transl)]. VL - 55 ER -