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Acute knee arthritis in psoriasis patient: What ultrasound could tell us?

Ahmed Abogamal

Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) affects almost 30% of psoriasis (PsO) patients, with different heterogeneous clinical presentations ranging from ethesitis, dactylitis, polyarticular, pauciarticular and axial spondyloarthopathy; causes joints pain in such group of patients always include psoriatic arthritis as a common cause of arthritis in such group, while other causes of joints pain could coexist in PsO patients. The early assessment using musculoskeletal ultrasound in such group could efficiently help in figuring out the cause of joint inflammation and in turn early application of the needed protocol of management.