Dactylitis
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Dactylitis or sausage digit is inflammation of an entire digit (a finger or toe),[1] and can be painful.
The word dactyl comes from the Greek word daktylos 'finger'. As a medical term, it refers to both the fingers and the toes.
Associated conditions
[edit | edit source]Dactylitis can occur in seronegative arthropathies, such as psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis, and in sickle-cell disease as result of a vasoocclusive crisis with bone infarcts, and in infectious conditions including tuberculosis, syphilis, and leprosy. In reactive arthritis, sausage fingers occur due to synovitis.[2] Dactylitis may also be seen with sarcoidosis.
In sickle-cell disease it typically occurs after 6 months of age (as in infants protective fetal hemoglobin, HbF, is replaced with adult hemoglobin and the disease manifests) and is often the first clinical presentation of the disorder.[3]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ "dactylitis" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
- ^ Robbins, Stanley Leonard; Kumar, Vinay; Abbas, Abdul K.; Cotran, Ramzi S.; Fausto, Nelson (2010). "Robbins and Cotran pathologic basis of disease". In Vinay Kumar, Abul K. Abbas, Nelson Fausto. Robbins Pathology Series (Elsevier). p. 205. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
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