[Symmetric, seronegative, remittent with edema synovitis. Presentation of a case]

A 67 year old female patient from the capital with acute onset of a severe symmetrical synovitis affecting the flexor digitorum tendon sheaths, wrists and hand joints with pitting edema of the dorsum of both hands is described. She was seronegative for latex test and improved with low doses of prednisone. This syndrome described previously went into complete remission although stopping therapy.