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Palindromic rheumatism was first described by Hench and Rosenberg in 1941, and three years later a detailed account of their 3 4 cases appeared in the Archives of Internal Medicine. We report on two patients with palindromic rheumatism whose complaint was recurrent attack of peripheral joint pain, swelling and redness at variable intervals lasting a few days.
There were no abnormalities found in laboratory examinations, on X-rays, or by 99m Tc or Ga scintigraphy. Soft tissue biopsies of the sites of inflammation showed there was non -specific chronic inflammation with slight infiltration of lymphocytes and plasma cells in the skin, the tendon sheath and the synovium.
