Chronic polyarthritis associated with hypogammaglobulinemia. A study of two patients. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Two adult patients with hypogammaglobulinemia and chronic synovitis were studied. Synovial tissue and fluid were examined by histologic, virologic, and immunologic methods. The synovium lacked characteristic histologic features of rheumatoid arthritis, and B lymphocytes were absent from the synovial tissue, fluid, and peripheral blood. These 2 patients may represent a form of chronic synovitis produced in the absence of any B lymphocyte response.

publication date

  • April 1, 1977

Research

keywords

  • Agammaglobulinemia
  • Arthritis, Rheumatoid

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0017484803

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1002/art.1780200319

PubMed ID

  • 301031

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 20

issue

  • 3