Leaking rheumatoid olecranon bursitis as a cause of forearm swelling.

Abstract

A patient with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis and recurrent oedema of the forearm was shown to have a leak from a multilobulated olecranon bursa. Bursal swelling is well known in rheumatoid arthritis and is particularly common at the elbow,1 where it is usually of little clinical consequence unless infection supervenes. To our knowledge rupture of an olecranon bursa has not been previously reported. Case report A 76-year-old man with recurrent asthmaticobronchitis, bronchiectasis, and seropositive, erosive rheumatoid arthritis of 6 years' duration was reasonably well controlled on salbutamol, indomethacin, .....l..

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