PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Louthrenoo, W
AU  - Ostrov, B E
AU  - Park, Y S
AU  - Rothfuss, S
AU  - Schumacher, H R
TI  - Pseudoseptic arthritis: an unusual presentation of neuropathic arthropathy.
AID  - 10.1136/ard.50.10.717
DP  - 1991 Oct 01
TA  - Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
PG  - 717--721
VI  - 50
IP  - 10
4099  - http://ard.bmj.com/content/50/10/717.short
4100  - http://ard.bmj.com/content/50/10/717.full
SO  - Ann Rheum Dis1991 Oct 01; 50
AB  - A 49 year old black man with scoliosis presented with bilateral shoulder swelling eventually shown to be due to neuropathic arthropathy related to underlying syringomyelia. The synovial fluid was highly inflammatory, but cultures from synovial fluid and synovial tissue were all sterile. Profuse fat droplets were noted and considered as a possible cause of the inflammation. This is an unusual presentation of neuropathic arthropathy in a patient who was also harbouring an adenocarcinoma that was undetected until later.