CASE REPORTS - RA of the larynx: the importance of early diagnosis and corticosteroid therapy

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South Med J. 1991 Jan;84(1):95-6.

Rheumatoid arthritis of the larynx: the importance of early diagnosis and

corticosteroid therapy.

Dockery KM, Sismanis A, Abedi E.

Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Medical College of

Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a destructive systemic disorder characterized by

remissions and exacerbations. The larynx is involved in approximately 25% of

these patients. The importance of early detection of laryngeal involvement

by this disease and treatment with corticosteroids has not been adequately

addressed in the literature. We have described five patients who had early

diagnosis and successful treatment with systemic corticosteroids and/or

corticosteroid injection of the cricoarytenoid joint.

PMID: 1986436

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