Sarcoidosis Presenting with Pathological Fracture of a Metacarpal

1 February 1986

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume)

Vol. 11 (1) , 137-138
https://doi.org/10.1016/0266-7681_86_90038-0

Abstract

We describe a patient who presented with pathological fracture of the fifth metacarpal which on further investigation, was found to be due to Sarcoidosis. There is no previous record of the condition presenting in this way, with a pathological fracture.

Keywords

PATHOLOGICAL FRACTURE
FIFTH
PRESENTED WITH PATHOLOGICAL
SARCOIDOSIS PRESENTING
METACARPAL
WHO PRESENTED
PREVIOUS RECORD

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

Osteosclerotic Lesions in Sarcoidosis
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 1977