Painful, swollen, itchy hands

Painful numb hands.

Carpal tunnel syndrome, resulting from median nerve compression at the wrist, is a common and often disabling mononeuropathy. Risk factors include female sex, family history, repetitive hand use, obesity, pregnancy and a variety of medical comorbidities including diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, and other connective tissue diseases. In many cases, an accurate diagnosis can be reached on...

Early diagnosis of arthritis of the hand; clinicopathological study of swollen painful hands in women over 40 years of age.

Swollen and painful joints in the hands of women over 40 years of age present a diagnostic problem. We have seen a number of patients whose signs and symptoms conformed to the criteria laid down by Kellgren and Moore (1952) for primary generalized osteo-arthritis but who, in addition, had swollen and painful metacarpophalangeal joints, particularly the second and third, and often involvement of...

Combined phlebography and arthrography in patients with painful swollen calf.

A woman with a painful and swollen hand.

Unilateral painful, swollen and erythematosus knee. Case report.

Musculoskeletal ultrasound (US) is gaining an increasing role in the assessment of a variegate set of joint and periarticular soft tissues abnormalities in rheumatology. In addition, US represents a useful technique in guiding local procedures such as aspiration of fluid collections and injections within the joints and periarticular musculoskeletal structures. We recently performed US in a pati...