Musculoskeletal manifestations of bacterial endocarditis.
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Musculoskeletal manifestations of bacterial endocarditis.
The records of 180 patients out of 247 with bacterial endocarditis were examined. 50 patients had rheumatic manifestations. In 10 there was arthritis of 2-12 weeks' duration before diagnosis; 19 had myalgia/arthralgia; 17 had back or neck pain; 14 had demonstrable arthritis; and 2 tenosynovitis of the foot. Of the 14 patients with arthritis, 8 had monarticular arthritis and 6 polyarticular. All...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.36.6.517