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Silicone synovitis: clinical, radiologic, and histologic features.

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Shergy, WJ; Urbaniak, JR; Polisson, RP
Published in: South Med J
September 1989
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We have described a patient in whom an erosive arthropathy of the right wrist developed three years after insertion of a silicone lunate prosthesis. The clinical picture of silicone synovitis is being recognized more frequently after bone and joint implants, but the diagnosis may be delayed because initial suspicions focus on infection or crystal-induced arthropathy rather than foreign body reaction.

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James Randolph Urbaniak
Author James Randolph Urbaniak Orthopaedic Surgery

Published In

South Med J

ISSN

0038-4348

Publication Date

September 1989

Volume

82

Issue

9

Start / End Page

1156 / 1158

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Wrist
  • Time Factors
  • Synovitis
  • Silicones
  • Radiography
  • Prostheses and Implants
  • Humans
  • General & Internal Medicine
  • Foreign-Body Reaction
  • Foreign-Body Migration
 

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Shergy, W. J., Urbaniak, J. R., & Polisson, R. P. (1989). Silicone synovitis: clinical, radiologic, and histologic features. South Med J, 82(9), 1156–1158.
Shergy, W. J., J. R. Urbaniak, and R. P. Polisson. “Silicone synovitis: clinical, radiologic, and histologic features.” South Med J 82, no. 9 (September 1989): 1156–58.
Shergy WJ, Urbaniak JR, Polisson RP. Silicone synovitis: clinical, radiologic, and histologic features. South Med J. 1989 Sep;82(9):1156–8.
Shergy, W. J., et al. “Silicone synovitis: clinical, radiologic, and histologic features.” South Med J, vol. 82, no. 9, Sept. 1989, pp. 1156–58.
Shergy WJ, Urbaniak JR, Polisson RP. Silicone synovitis: clinical, radiologic, and histologic features. South Med J. 1989 Sep;82(9):1156–1158.

Published In

South Med J

ISSN

0038-4348

Publication Date

September 1989

Volume

82

Issue

9

Start / End Page

1156 / 1158

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Wrist
  • Time Factors
  • Synovitis
  • Silicones
  • Radiography
  • Prostheses and Implants
  • Humans
  • General & Internal Medicine
  • Foreign-Body Reaction
  • Foreign-Body Migration