Pathological Lesions in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Tendon Lesions in Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Muscle Lesions in Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Recently certain pathological investigations have indicated that there is frequently widespread involvement of the neuromuscular system in rheumatoid arthritis, and it has been suggested that this may be responsible for the prominent neuromuscular clinical features of the disease. Curtis and Pollard (1940) were the first to describe the non-articular lesion which was common to all their eleven ...

Heel lesions of rheumatoid arthritis.

Two lesions affecting the heel in rheumatoid arthritis have received little or no attention of recent years: one involves the plantar surface of the calcaneus and the calcaneal spur, and the other the synovial bursa between the insertion of the Achilles tendon into the calcaneus and the calcaneus itself. This note is designed primarily to draw attention to the sub-Achilles lesion, since it may ...

Rheumatoid arthritis with lung lesions.

Eliman and Ball (1948) first adequately described lung lesions in rheumatoid arthritis, regarding them as part of the disease process and as affording further evidence of the tendency of this malady to produce lesions elsewhere than in the joints. Of their three cases, which clinically presented typical rheumatoid arthritis associated with signs of pulmonary disease, two came to post-mortem exa...

Cervical Spine Lesions in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients.

AIM OF THE STUDY to gather clinical and laboratory data on rheumatoid arthritis patients with cervical spine damage (incidence and prevalence, correlation between duration of disease and the time of lesion onset, to assess signs and symptoms and the role of laboratory investigations). The spine is an axial organ with an important role in support and resistance. It is a pillar with a very comple...