Diagnostic value of blind synovial biopsy in clinical practice

EJA Kroot; Angelique Weel; Mieke Hazes; Pieter Zondervan; Rien Heijboer; Paul van Daele; Radboud Dolhain

doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kei117

Diagnostic value of blind synovial biopsy in clinical practice

EJA Kroot^*
, Angelique Weel
, Mieke Hazes
, Pieter Zondervan
, Rien Heijboer
, Paul van Daele
, Radboud Dolhain

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To assess the diagnostic value of blindly performed synovial biopsies in carefully selected patients with unclassified arthritis.

METHODS: Synovial tissue was obtained blindly under local anaesthesia. The Arthroforce III take-apart 3.5 mm needle and 1.5 mm grasping forceps were used for this purpose.

RESULTS: Four patients with unclassified arthritis could be diagnosed properly based upon examination of synovial tissue of the knee obtained by an easy-to-perform blind biopsy. The arthritis of the four patients was diagnosed as being part of Erdheim-Chester disease, sarcoidosis, multicentric reticulohistiocytosis and arthritis caused by foreign-body material, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS: Analysis of synovial tissue obtained during a blind biopsy procedure has diagnostic potential in carefully selected patients with unclassified arthritis. The common denominator in all the cases presented was a differential diagnosis consisting of a rheumatological disease with characteristic histological features.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	192-195
Number of pages	4
Journal	Rheumatology
Volume	45
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kei117
Publication status	Published - Feb 2006

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