Domínguez-Gasca LG, Domínguez-Carrillo LG

Language: Spanish
References: 19
Page: 20-23
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ABSTRACT

In 1857, Dr. Robert Adams, Professor of Surgery from Dublin University, was the first to describe in his textbook, the pathological features of an entity that he called «Chronic rheumatic arthritis of the shoulder». Is until 1981, when McCarty and Halverson reported four old females patients with degenerative and destructive arthropaty of dominant shoulder, associated with calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition, producing greater amount of synovial fluid and complete rotator cuff tear; they called it «Milwaukee shoulder». The principal symptoms are: shoulder pain, articular edema and disability for rapid articular destruction caused by cytokines and metalloproteinases, it is associated in 50% of cases with chondrocalcinosis and osteoarthritis of lateral compartments of the knees. We present the case of a 90 years old woman with clinical and radiographic characteristics of Milwaukee syndrome.

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