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RHEUMATOLOGY    

• Carpal-tunnel-synd

• Low Back Pain  / lumbarspinalstenosis / backache2008.pdf      

• Ankle Sprain  

• Foot Pain  

• Knee Pain  

• Gouty arthritis  

• Mono-arthritis  

• Osteoarthritis  

• Rheumatoid -arthritis  

• Septic/ Bacterial Arthritis

• Osteoporosis  

• Paget's Disease  

• Polyarthralgia  

• Rabdomyolysis  

• Reiter syndrome

• Sjogren's synd.  

• SLE

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

• Fibromyalgia  

• Temporal Arteritis ( JAMA. June 12, 2002;287:2996-3000)

• ABC of  Musculoskeletal Pain  July 2002  

• Cervical Radiculopathy  

• Vertebral Osteomyelitis 2010  
  

Does This Patient Have Temporal Arteritis?
Conclusions A small number of clinical features are helpful in predicting the likelihood of a positive temporal artery biopsy among patients with a clinical suspicion of disease; the most useful finding is a normal ESR, which makes TA unlikely.  JAMA. Jan. 2, 2002;287:92-101

REF:

American College of Rheumatology  

Classification Critereia for Rheumatic Diseases

The Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center

Medscape Rheumatology

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