Journal article
Authors list: NEECK, G; RIEDEL, W; SCHMIDT, KL
Publication year: 1990
Pages: 1697-1700
Journal: The Journal of Rheumatology
Volume number: 17
Issue number: 12
ISSN: 0315-162X
Publisher: The Journal of Rheumatology
Abstract:
A 75-year-old woman with untreated primary hypothyroidism was found with peripheral neuropathy (including carpal tunnel syndrome), severe myopathy (high levels of creatine phosphokinase) and destructive arthropathy, affecting fingers, toes and the left knee. Radiographs of her knee showed destructive lesions of the tibial plateau similar to a pathologic compression fracture, while the joints of the fingers and toes showed all signs of severe erosive osteoarthritis (OA), radiographically documented over a period of 7 years. It is suggested that hypothyroidism is causally related to the development of erosive OA.
Citation Styles
Harvard Citation style: NEECK, G., RIEDEL, W. and SCHMIDT, K. (1990) NEUROPATHY, MYOPATHY AND DESTRUCTIVE ARTHROPATHY IN PRIMARY HYPOTHYROIDISM, The Journal of Rheumatology, 17(12), pp. 1697-1700
APA Citation style: NEECK, G., RIEDEL, W., & SCHMIDT, K. (1990). NEUROPATHY, MYOPATHY AND DESTRUCTIVE ARTHROPATHY IN PRIMARY HYPOTHYROIDISM. The Journal of Rheumatology. 17(12), 1697-1700.
Keywords
ANTIGENS; DESTRUCTIVE ARTHROPATHY; EROSIVE OSTEOARTHRITIS; HLA-A; HYPOTHYROIDISM; myopathy; NEUROPATHY
