AN UNUSUAL CASE OF CHRONIC NONSPECIFIC TENOSYNOVITIS OF EXTENSOR TENDON OF RIGHT HAND WITH MULTIPLE RICE BODIES

Dr.B.Sahithya; Dr.G.Arunkumar

Volume : VIII, Issue : III, March - 2019

AN UNUSUAL CASE OF CHRONIC NONSPECIFIC TENOSYNOVITIS OF EXTENSOR TENDON OF RIGHT HAND WITH MULTIPLE RICE BODIES

Dr. B. Sahithya, Dr. G. Arunkumar

Abstract :

Rice bodies are an uncommon, nonspecific inflammatory structures located both in intra articular and extra articular areas, they are traditionally observed in the joint and tendon sheaths of patients with trauma, bursitis, infectious arthritis like tuberculosis, atypical mycobacterial infection rheumatoid arthritis, nonspecific arthritis, and osteoarthritis 1. Rice bodies are also seen without any underlying systemic diseases. Presence of multiple rice bodies with in the tendon sheath is extremely rare. We describe here a rare case of multiple rice bodies that accompanied chronic nonspeciﬁc tenosynovitis of the extensor tendons of the hand.