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Keelpijn bij reumatoide artritis: Twee patienten met cricoarytenoid-artritis

  • J. A. D. Jol*
  • , G. W. van Deelen
  • , H. J. Dinant
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Department of Neurology, Zaans Medisch Centrum, 1502 DV, Zaandam, The Netherlands
  • The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
  • Slotervaart Hospital
  • Department of Immunopathology, CLB Sanquin Amsterdam and Department of Rheumatology, Jan van Breemen Institute Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Abstract

In two patients with chronic rheumatoid arthritis, a woman aged 65 and a man aged 56 years, cricoarytenoid arthritis was diagnosed. The symptoms were hoarseness, sore throat and stridor. In both patients a narrowed glottic fissure was found. In one patient tracheostomy was necessary to guarantee a free airway; in the other, therapy with local corticosteroid injections (triamcinolone), combined with immunosuppressive therapy (prednisone), was effective. Early detection through anamnesis and laryngoscopy allows early therapy with a good prognosis.
Original languageDutch
Pages (from-to)1567-1570
JournalNederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
Volume141
Issue number32
Publication statusPublished - Aug 1997
Externally publishedYes

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