Global InformationArthritis mutilans information
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Arthritis mutilans is a rare medical condition involving severe inflammation damaging the joints of the hands and feet, and resulting in deformation and problems with moving the affected areas; it can also affect the spine.[1] As an uncommon arthropathy, arthritis mutilans was originally described as affecting the hands, feet, fingers, and/or toes, but can refer in general to severe derangement of any joint damaged by arthropathy.[2] First described in modern medical literature by Marie and Leri in 1913, in the hands, arthritis mutilans is also known as opera glass hand (la main en lorgnette in French), or chronic absorptive arthritis.[3][4] Sometimes there is foot involvement in which toes shorten and on which painful calluses develop in a condition known as opera glass foot, or pied en lorgnette.[5][6]
- ^ National Institutes of Health Genetics Home Reference, Psoriatic arthritis. Accessed 2016-11-06.
- ^ Nielsen, B.; Snorrason, E. (1 November 1946). "Arthritis Mutilans". Acta Radiologica. 27 (6): 607–616. doi:10.1177/028418514602700605. S2CID 81096498.
- ^ Nelson, Louis S. (October 1938). "The opera-glass hand in chronic arthritis. 'La main en lorgnette' of Marie and Léri". JBJS. 20 (4): 1045–1049.
- ^ Solomon, W. M.; Stecher, R. M. (1 September 1950). "Chronic Absorptive Arthritis or Opera-Glass Hand: Report of Eight Cases". Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 9 (3): 209–220. doi:10.1136/ard.9.3.209. PMC 1030771. PMID 14783359.
- ^ Froimson, Avrum I. (October 1971). "Hand Reconstruction in Arthritis Mutilans: A CASE REPORT". The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. 53 (7): 1377–1382. doi:10.2106/00004623-197153070-00014. PMID 4939959.
- ^ Eisenstadt, H. B.; Eggers, G. W. N. (April 1955). "Arthritis Mutilans (Doigt, Main, Pied en Lorgnette)". The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. 37 (2): 337–346. doi:10.2106/00004623-195537020-00012.