PR Yakoubi Mustapha*
University Hospital Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Head of Service, Algiers Faculty of Medicine, Algeria
*Corresponding Author: PR Yakoubi Mustapha, University Hospital Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Head of Service, Algiers Faculty of Medicine, Algeria.
Received: January 24, 2020; Published: February 01, 2020
The advent of biotherapies to treat rheumatoid arthritis has profoundly changed the course of the disease. Sometimes it is often aggressive and particularly destructive for the osteo-articular apparatus and soft tissues, especially in the hand.
In rheumatoid arthritis, hand involvement is almost systematic (90% of cases): it can affect all anatomical structures with very variable degrees of severity.
Citation: PR Yakoubi Mustapha. “The Rheumatoid Hand Seen by the Hand Surgeon"Acta Scientific Orthopaedics 3.3 (2020): 01.
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