Isolated tenosynovitis associated with psoriasis triggered by physical injury

A. Padula¹, F. Belsito², L. Barozzi⁴, F. Cantini⁵, C. Salvarani¹, P. Pavlica⁴, I. Olivieri<sup>3

1</sup>Rheumatic Disease Unit, Arcispedale S. Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia; ²Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital of Faenza; ³Rheumatic Disease Unit and the ⁴Department of Diagnostic Radiology, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna; ⁵Rheumatic Disease Unit, Hospital of Prato, Italy.


ABSTRACT
A 60-year-old man who had been suffering from psoriasis for 20 years developed finger dactylitis and inflammatory swelling with pitting edema over the dorsum of the hand one week after a contusive trauma to the left hand. These were not followed by any other clinical manifestations of PsA.

Key words
Dactylitis, magnetic resonance imaging, psoriatic arthritis, seronegative spondyloarthropathy.

Angela Padula, MD: Research Fellow; Filiberto Belsito, MD: Senior Investigator; Libero Barozzi, MD: Senior Investigator; Fabrizio Cantini, MD: Senior Investigator; Carlo Salvarani, MD: Consultant; Pietro Pavlica, MD: Director, Dept. of Diagnostic Radiology, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital; Ignazio Olivieri, MD: Senior Investigator.

Please address correspondence and reprint requests to: Dr. Ignazio Olivieri, Servizio di Reumatologia, Ospedale San Carlo, Contrada Macchia Romana, 85100 Potenza, Italy.

Received on May 7, 1998; accepted in revised form on August 28, 1998.

Clin Exp Rheumatol 1999; 17: 103-104.
© Copyright Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology 1999.