RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Upper limb pyrophosphate tenosynovitis outside the carpal tunnel.
JF Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
JO Ann Rheum Dis
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and European League Against Rheumatism
SP 689
OP 691
DO 10.1136/ard.48.8.689
VO 48
IS 8
A1 J C Gerster
A1 R Lagier
YR 1989
UL http://ard.bmj.com/content/48/8/689.abstract
AB Three cases of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) crystal deposits in tendon sheaths outside the carpal tunnel are reported. Crystals were shown by x ray diffraction analysis in one case and by compensated light microscopy in the other two. Surgical excision of the tendon synovial sheath had to be done in two cases (one case with CPPD crystal deposits).