Finger joint swelling: correlation with age, gender, and manual labor
| Autor: | Peter B. Dean, Pekka Virtama, Pekka Makela |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male musculoskeletal diseases medicine.medical_specialty Radiography Joint disease Sex Factors Degenerative disease Older patients Finger Joint Humans Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Occupations Aged Orthodontics business.industry Age Factors Soft tissue General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Female Finger joint Joint Diseases Swelling medicine.symptom business Interphalangeal Joint |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Roentgenology. 132:939-943 |
| ISSN: | 1546-3141 0361-803X |
| DOI: | 10.2214/ajr.132.6.939 |
| Popis: | A soft tissue immersion radiography technique was used to study changes in 4,648 finger joints of 166 patients free from signs of inflammatory joint disease. An age-specific correlation was found for joint swelling, joint space narrowing, joint margin spurs, and intraarticular loose bodies. The distal interphalangeal joints were more commonly swollen in women, and the proximal interphalangeal and metacarpophalangeal joints more commonly swollen in manual laborers. Both correlations are highly significant (P less than 0.001). The second and third digits showed a definite predilection for joint swelling. Swelling of finger joints is closely correlated with age and degenerative disease, and its occurrence in older patients is associated with degenerative changes. In manual laborers it should not be interpreted as evidence for inflammatory joint disease. |
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