Remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema

An 80-year-old man with the acute onset of pain and swelling at the hands. Symptoms and signs responded briskly to prednisone 10 mg in the morning and 5 mg at night.

Reproduced from: Docken WP. Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis. In: Targeted Treatment of the Rheumatic Diseases, Weisman MH, Weinblatt ME, Louie JS, Van Vollenhoven RF (Eds), Elsevier, 2010. p. 186.

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