RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLINICAL FEATURES AND IMAGING FINDINGS IN PATIENT WITH PRIMARY OSTEOARTHRITIS OF FIRST METATAROPHALANGEAL JOINT

Đức Tâm Phùng1,2,, Thị Thu Nguyễn1, Virak Khim1, Thị Phương Thủy Nguyễn1,2, Thị Minh Hoa Trần3
1 HMU
2 Musculoskeletal Center, Bach Mai Hospital
3 Hanoi Medical University Hospital

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Objective: To describe clinical symptoms, x-ray images, ultrasound images of the primary osteoarthritis in metatarsophalangeal joints of foot and evaluate the association between clinical manifestation and ultrasound in research subjects. Subjects and method: The descriptive study on the case series of 50 patients with symptoms of swelling and/or pain and/or movement restriction and/or deformation of first metatarsophalangeal joint for outpatient examination at the Rheumatogy consultant in Bach Mai hospital from August in 2022 to August in 2023. Results: The average age of this group is 59,2 ± 9,4. Classification of osteoarthritis grade based on x-ray at grade 1 and grade 2 with the rate of 61% and 32%, respectively. The most common image in ultrasound is osteophytes 67%, joint effusion and thick synovium is less common with 23% and 8,2%, respectively. The higher grade of osteoarthritis on the x-ray images, the more painful, statistically significant difference with 95% confidence. There is a relationship between the appearance of osteophytes image on ultrasound and the grade of deformation joint, movement restriction. Conclusion: There is a strong correlation between the severity of clinical manifestations and the grade of x-ray images and ultrasound images.

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