EROSIVE AMYLOIDOSIS OF THE WRIST AND KNEE ASSOCIATED WITH OLIGOCLONALBANDS

We report on a patient who presented with an inflammatory arthropathy clinically, though without a raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate, an d in whom investigation subsequently showed erosive amyloidosis with a n oligoclonal band. There was no evidence of rheumatoid disease and sh e has not developed any haematological malignancy. The only other case reported in the literature had an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate and went on to develop a lymphoplasmacytoid lymphoma.