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The supratrochlear lymph nodes: their diagnostic significance in a swollen elbow joint
1Dr Dinubhai Patel Orthopaedic Hospital and Research Center, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. drdapatel@icenet.net
Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
|January 5, 2002
Abstract:
In the differential diagnosis of a swollen elbow, the palpation of the supratrochlear glands is useful. They are not enlarged in a traumatic elbow joint. They are enlarged, discrete and shotty in rheumatoid arthritis. In tuberculosis, they are enlarged, matted and they may caseate and form a cold abscess on the medial aspect of the supratrochlear region of the arm.