CASE-REPORT - COEXISTENCE OF ACUTE CALCIFIC PERIARTHRITIS AND INFECTION

Basic calcium phosphate (BCP) crystal deposition around the joints may sometimes lead to an acute inflammatory condition called calcific per iarthritis. In this article, the authors describe a 62-year-old man wi th BCP crystal-induced periarthritis coexisting with an infection. Rhe umatoid arthritis and crystal-induced synovitis complicated by infecti on has been described in the literature. To date, this is the first re port of coexistent calcific periarthritis and an infection.