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Erosion Identification in Metacarpophalangeal Joints in Rheumatoid Arthritis using High-Resolution Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography
Published on: October 6, 2023
A radiological study of the rheumatoid hand in black South Africans
N G J Maritz1, A J Gerber, S J Greyling
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pretoria, South Africa. nmaritz@med.up.ac.za
Objective:
To determine wrist and hand involvement in black South African patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Methods:
Larsen scoring of the wrist and hand was done in 75 patients. The mean finger score was 9.67 (range 0 - 100) on the left hand and 10.3 (range 0 - 100) on the right. Scores for the wrists were 2.5 (range 0 - 5) for the left and 2.7 (range 0 - 5) for the right.
Conclusion:
Finger and thumb involvement were considerably less in the South African black population than in other series consisting mainly of white patients.