Again I remember a small pom-pom wound at the inner margin of the ligamentum patellæ without obvious wound of the joint, which was accompanied by synovitis from contusion, and was followed by very considerable limitation of movement.
The degree of synovitis was apt to vary with the amount of force expended in the production of the injury; for this reason both high velocity and irregular impact were of importance in this relation.
This complicates the case and probably some form of tendinous synovitis follows, running into suppurative arthritis, to end, if close to a joint, with a fatal result.
Moist gangrene often spreads and involves deeper tissue, sheaths of tendons and joints producing septic synovitis or septic arthritis leading to pyemia and death.
Ulcerative arthritis and suppurative synovitis may be developed otherwise than in connection with open joints; the simplest and apparently most harmless punctures may prove to be sufficient cause.
Instances of this kind, depending on the degree of insult, manifest evidence of injury which ranges from a simple synovitis to the most active inflammatory involvement of the entire structure and adjacent tissues.
With the exception of the extent of the involvement and distress occasioned thereby, synovitis the result of open tendon sheaths, is similar wherever it occurs.
Chronic inflammation of the stifle joint is met with following acute synovitis due to strains and concussion.
A specific polyarthritis or synovitis which attends navel infection of foals is perhaps the most frequent form of arthritis that is to be considered metastatic.
But a puncture made in a similar manner and with the same instrument without due regard to asepsis is likely to cause an infectious synovitis and arthritis usually follows.
Each of the tendons is provided with synovial sheaths which are subject to inflammation and occasionally synovitis and distension of these synovial sheaths occur.
Therefore, he is uncertain as to the best method of handling such cases where an injury has been recently inflicted and positive evidence of the existence of an infectious synovitis is not present.
As a result of acute synovitis a chronic synovial distension of the tarsal sheath occurs.
Strangles occurs in the young principally and is not a frequent cause of synovitis or arthritis in the adult animal.
Septic synovitis and infectious arthritis are always serious affections even in young animals and much depends upon individual resistance and early rational treatment in such cases, if recovery is to follow.
It is characterized by all of the symptoms which attend the case of open joint and synovitis plus the obvious manifestation of great pain.
The same proportionate amount of irritation affects this part of the leg, owing to strains, as affect the carpus from a similar cause; and synovitis from this cause, is as frequent in one case as in the other.
Excepting in cases of acute inflammation attending synovitis of these parts, no lameness marks its existence and in chronic cases of synovial distension the service of affected animals is not interfered with.
Rheumatoid arthritis begins in the joints, is associated with other symptoms; deformity of the fingers comes early in the disease, and there is a teno-synovitis with contraction.
During this second stage, however, owing to the proximity of the swellings to the joints, a moderate amount of synovitis is often present.
Specific synovitis of knee-joint, with considerable articular and peri-articular effusion.
In chronic synovitis and all other articular affections accompanied by exudation, the same holds good.
In the Joints, a serous synovitis or hydrops may occur, chiefly in the knee, on one or on both sides.
Treatment is conducted on the same lines as in teno-synovitis of the tendo Achillis.
When teno-synovitis occurs independently of disease of the ankle, the swelling is confined to one aspect of the joint.
If the sprain is followed by much synovitis a plaster of Paris or leather splint may be applied, complete rest being secured for the limb.
The symptoms of synovitis include stiffness and tenderness in the joint.
If, however, bleeding does not take place, the swelling is not immediate, but synovitis having been set up, serous effusion comes on sooner or later.
In the case of a healthy individual the effects of a sprain may quickly pass off, but in a rheumatic or gouty person chronic synovitis may obstinately remain.
We may, in fact, explain them by suggesting either a chronic synovitis alone, or a synovitis complicated with periostitis.
Simple or acute synovitis is nearly always brought about by injury to the joint--by blows or bruises, or by sprains of the ligaments.
It depends, in fact, upon the severity of our case whether we call it synovitis or arthritis.
Necrosis of tendon, of ligament, or of cartilage, caries of the bone, or a condition of synovitis and arthritis may be met with.
Acute synovitis of a joint leads to heat of the parts, pain, distension of the capsule, and, where the joint may be easily felt, fluctuation.
With an attack of simple synovitis it may be always assumed that the changes commenced in the synovial membrane, communicate themselves more or less readily to the surrounding tissues, and are not confined to the synovial membrane alone.
When the fracture is complicated by the formation of pus, as in the case of prick, then the case, with the attendant purulent synovitis and arthritis, is even more hopeless still.
Such symptoms, therefore, as we have given for synovitis may be also read as indicating a condition of simple arthritis.
When, however, the condition is simply that of synovitis or tenositis, a more or less acute condition, we may assume that suitable treatment and a long rest will bring about resolution.
The result is that a condition of synovitis is easily set up, and the case aggravated by that and by arthritis.
Synovitis may be considered under three heads; Rheumatic, Scrofulous, and Syphilitic.
From these alone a differential diagnosis between synovitis and arthritis cannot be made.
While it is true that an inflammation of a synovial membrane cannot long remain without extending to the other joint structures, the fact remains that symptoms peculiar to synovitis often persist for months.
Synovitis may occur as a result of a simple injury, such as a subcutaneous wound, a contusion, or a sprain.
This affection is nearly always very acute, beginning as an acute synovitis and extending to the articular fibrocartilages at an early date.
The symptoms of arthritis are obviously more severe than those of a simple articular synovitis and are both local and general.
There are always suppurative synovitis and osteomyelitis, with a consequent ankylosis of bony structure.
The subsidence of a chronic synovitisgenerally leaves a weak and impaired joint, though pain may be absent.
The local symptoms are those common to synovitis and arthritis: pain, tenderness, swelling, heat, redness and loss of function.
Should the joint escape infection, the synovitis quickly subsides and recovery takes place with little or no impairment of the functional value of the part.
I am now troubled with a new complaint, synovitis of the knee joint with a good deal of effusion, which makes it very difficult to walk.
Stories in the Congo grow with extraordinary rapidity and my attack of synovitis had been converted into a serious illness before it reached the capital.
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