A patient presents to your clinic complaining of morning stiffness of the hands lasting over half an hour. His joints also hurt, but the stiffness and pain improve with use. On physical exam, you note some joint line tenderness and effusions, mostly involving the distal interphalangeal joints. The image is shown above. He has some pitting edema of the extremities. He was also treated last week for uveitis. Note the nail involvement; below is a textbook example of mild (left) to severe (right) nail findings.
Challenge: What's your diagnosis?First image is in the public domain. Second image is shown under fair use.
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arthritis associated with psoriasis
correct!
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Nails
This is psoriatic arthritis, usually seronegative for rheumatoid factor. The first image shows characteristic plaques with silver-white scale on the knuckles. The second image shows (a) mild pits of the nail plate and onycholytic separation of the lateral edge of the nail plate from the nail bed, (b) nail plate pitting and advanced onycholysis, and (c) nails replaced by thick hyperkeratotic masses. Radiology could show erosive changes with new bone formation in the distal joints.
Sources: UpToDate; nlm.nih.gov.
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