TY - JOUR
T1 - Granulomatous Synovitis and Crohn's Disease
AU - Bayless, Theodore M.
AU - Stevens, Mary Betty
AU - Nugent, F. Warren
PY - 1976/4/15
Y1 - 1976/4/15
N2 - To the Editor: Nugent and his coauthors (N Engl J Med 294:262, 1976) have called attention to granulomatous bone lesions accompanying Crohn's disease. The peripheral arthropathy of inflammatory bowel disease has usually been characterized as a benign nonspecific polyarthralgia and synovitis that rarely leads to joint or bone destruction. We have seen two patients, a 22-year-old woman and a 14-year-old boy, with progressive monarticular arthritis with radiologic evidence of altered articular cartilage and subchondrial bone. One had joint narrowing of the hip; the other demonstrated subchondrial erosion of the lateral condyle of the knee. A synovial biopsy in the. . . No extract is available for articles shorter than 400 words.
AB - To the Editor: Nugent and his coauthors (N Engl J Med 294:262, 1976) have called attention to granulomatous bone lesions accompanying Crohn's disease. The peripheral arthropathy of inflammatory bowel disease has usually been characterized as a benign nonspecific polyarthralgia and synovitis that rarely leads to joint or bone destruction. We have seen two patients, a 22-year-old woman and a 14-year-old boy, with progressive monarticular arthritis with radiologic evidence of altered articular cartilage and subchondrial bone. One had joint narrowing of the hip; the other demonstrated subchondrial erosion of the lateral condyle of the knee. A synovial biopsy in the. . . No extract is available for articles shorter than 400 words.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM197604152941617
DO - 10.1056/NEJM197604152941617
M3 - Letter
C2 - 1250321
AN - SCOPUS:0017306997
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 294
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 16
ER -