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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Psoriatic Arthritis
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Patterns or subsets of arthritis accompanying psoriasis, Demographics, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Differential Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Laboratory Tests, Imaging Studies, Treatment, Medications, Therapeutic Procedures, Outcome, Complications, Prognosis, When to Refer, References,
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Topics Discussed: arthritis, psoriatic.
Excerpt: | |  Joint disease that resembles rheumatoid arthritis with symmetric polyarthritis
An oligoarticular form that may lead to considerable destruction of the affected joints Predominant involvement of the distal interphalangeal joints; pitting of the nails and onycholysis are frequently associated A severe deforming arthritis (arthritis mutilans) with marked osteolysis A spondylitic form in which sacroiliitis and spinal involvement predominate; 50% of these patients are HLA-B27 positive |
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