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Lymphoscintigraphic study in a case of rheumatoid arthritis-related lymphoedema
C Hidalgo Calleja1, M Cuesta Andrés, M J Llorente Melero
1Rheumatology Unit, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain.
Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
Lymphoedema of the upper limbs is a rare extraarticular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Herein we report a patient with RA who presented two episodes of lymphoedema in the hands and forearms coinciding with flares of polyarthritis. Lymphoscintigraphy showed lymphatic-ectasia. The oedema improved with slow-acting drug treatment.