TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Arthritis
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Rheumatoid Factor
KW - Alpha-Macroglobulins
AU - Atkin S L
AU - Welbury R R
AU - Stanfield E
AU - Beavis D
AU - Iwais B
AU - Dick W C
AB - <p>The results of a combined clinical and laboratory study in 55 patients throughout the leprosy spectrum are reported. Thirty one of these patients suffered from an inflammatory peripheral polyarthritis which has not been previously described and which was unassociated with the characteristics of erythema nodosum leprosum reactions or with Charcot's joints. alpha 2 Macroglobulin was raised significantly only in those patients with leprosy and arthritis.</p>
BT - Annals of the rheumatic diseases
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2445311?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1987 Sep
DO - 10.1136/ard.46.9.688
IS - 9
J2 - Ann. Rheum. Dis.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>The results of a combined clinical and laboratory study in 55 patients throughout the leprosy spectrum are reported. Thirty one of these patients suffered from an inflammatory peripheral polyarthritis which has not been previously described and which was unassociated with the characteristics of erythema nodosum leprosum reactions or with Charcot's joints. alpha 2 Macroglobulin was raised significantly only in those patients with leprosy and arthritis.</p>
PY - 1987
SP - 688
EP - 90
T2 - Annals of the rheumatic diseases
TI - Clinical and laboratory studies of inflammatory polyarthritis in patients with leprosy in Papua New Guinea.
VL - 46
SN - 0003-4967
ER -