Vnitr Lek 1989, 35(8):812-815
[Errors in the evaluation of osteoarticular symptoms].
The authors describe two patients with osteoarticular symptoms. In the first patient they were treated as rheumatic disease, and only after treatment had failed, a neoplastic aetiology was considered. In the second patient the authors considered the articular complaints from the beginning a paraneoplastic syndrome and only the subsequent course of the disease revealed that they were mistaken. It was rheumatoid arthritis with an atypical Caplan syndrome.
Keywords: Adult; Arthritis, Rheumatoid, diagnosis, ; Carcinoma, Bronchogenic, complications, ; Diagnostic Errors; Female; Humans; Joint Diseases, diagnosis, ; Lung Neoplasms, complications, ; Male; Middle Aged
Published: August 1, 1989 Show citation