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From wheels to feet: a dramatic response of severe chronic psoriatic arthritis to etanercept
  1. ORI ELKAYAM,
  2. MICHAEL YARON,
  3. DAN CASPI
  1. Department of Rheumatology
  2. Tel Aviv “Sourasky” Medical Centre and
  3. “Sackler” Faculty of Medicine
  4. University of Tel Aviv
  5. Israel
  1. Dr Ori Elkayam, Department of Rheumatology, Tel Aviv Medical Centre, 6 Weizman street, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel Email: unitel87{at}netvision.net.il

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A 47 year old man presented with seven years of severe psoriatic polyarticular arthritis of progressive, symmetrical, and additive course, affecting the shoulders, elbows, wrists, metacarpophalangeal joints, proximal interphalangeal joints, distal interphalangeal joints, hips, knees, and feet. Also, his skin and nails were completely affected with severe erythroderma. The patient was treated with methotrexate, chrysotherapy, antimalarial drugs, salazopyrine, azathioprine, cyclosporin, minocycline, and intra-articular and systemic corticosteroids. All these treatments consecutively and in …

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