What's the difference between synovitis and tenosynovitis?
Synovitis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the synovial membrane.
Example Sentences:
(1) With a minimum review period of 6 months complete remission of synovitis was obtained in 20%, while 63% gained symptomatic relief, with some reduction of synovitis.
(2) Synovitis in patients with severe immunodeficiency has important pathogenetic implications.
(3) No recurrence of synovitis occurred after surgical excision and colchicine therapy but arthralgia persisted.
(4) Joint damage or synovitis may predispose aged patients to sepsis.
(5) This synovitis is associated with both destruction of connective tissue components and matrix deposition.
(6) Multiple tenosynovectomy specimens revealed granulomatous synovitis with sterile cultures.
(7) A 55-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis in overlap with polymyositis received sulfasalazine for control of synovitis.
(8) The high frequency of coxa magna in these patients and its possible role in the development of degenerative arthritis indicate that transient synovitis of the hip should not be considered a harmless disease until further epidemiologic studies are available.
(9) Synovitis plays a major role, as demonstrated by the frequency of clicking fingers (45%), and requires synovectomy that allows thoroughly exploring the carpal tunnel and removing a highly aggressive element against tendons.
(10) However in the presence of marked exudative synovitis processes (chronic primary polyarthritis), the use of orgotein is of limited value.
(11) In rheumatoid arthritis (RA) joint inflammation is due to two processes: 1) the underlying inflammatory process (UIP) characterized by a lymphoplasmacellular infiltration of the synovial tissue, as well as pannus formation, and 2) the detritogenic synovitis (DS), a synovial response to articular wear products from cartilage and bone (detritus) that induces a preferentially fibrinous inflammation.
(12) It is concluded that the cases described are similar to avian infectious synovitis syndrome caused by M. synoviae previously described overseas.
(13) The result may be excessive postoperative synovitis and occasionally, hemarthrosis.
(14) This implicates the endothelial cell as playing a major part in exacerbations of synovitis, induced by radicals.
(15) In the animals with synovitis, the synthetic cells were found to undergo mitosis but not the phagocytic cells.
(16) The inflammatory stage of osteoarthritis when secondary synovitis contributes to the characteristic clinical presentation is first explained.
(17) A review of arthroscopic, radiographic, and clinical data of all patients undergoing ankle arthroscopy at our center provided the following diagnoses: talar dome osteochondral fractures, loose bodies, accessory ossicles, talar dome cyst with loose bodies, and chronic synovitis.
(18) The disease progresses through synovitis, necrosis, fragmentation, and a residual stage.
(19) Pigmented villonodular synovitis is a non-malignant disease entity of controversial origin and nature.
(20) These findings suggest that lymphokine-like substances were present in effusions and synovial tissue of most patients with rheumatoid arthritis and some patients with other forms of chronic synovitis.
Tenosynovitis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The etiology, diagnosis and surgical treatment of stenosing tenosynovitis of the peroneal tendons is presented.
(2) Volar subluxation of the tendons of the first dorsal compartment of the wrist occurred in two patients after surgery for treatment of de Quervain's stenosing tenosynovitis.
(3) A rare case of aseptic tenosynovitis from oxytocin injection in the vicinity of a tendon causing spontaneous rupture of the extensor digitorum communis tendon is reported.
(4) Infectious tenosynovitis was diagnosed in three separate outbreaks in a commercial White Leghorn hens, though not previously reported in adult White Leghorns (3).
(5) Breeder vaccination against tenosynovitis resulted in immunity of the progeny against oral infection at 1 day old, whereas progeny from unvaccinated breeders were susceptible to such a challenge.
(6) A fluid collection inside the tendon sheath was detected in 5 cases of tenosynovitis, without false-positive results.
(7) It is concluded that tenosynovitis is uncommon in patients undergoing surgery for treatment of idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome.
(8) We present such a case of the injection of Depo-Medrone with Lidocaine (Upjohn) into the right radial artery during attempted treatment of stenosing tenosynovitis of the right thumb.
(9) The diagnostic criteria of median nerve compression (carpal tunnel syndrome) include morphological and signal changes in the nerve, abnormal palmar convexity of the flexor retinaculum and signs of tenosynovitis of the intracarpal flexor tendons.
(10) However, HL-A7 was found more frequently in patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis demonstrating tenosynovitis than in the population with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis as a whole.
(11) There was no evidence that practice of the sport predisposed to the early onset of chronic tenosynovitis or osteoarthritis.
(12) In extensor cystic tenosynovitis, the echographic picture was quite different: the anechoic cavity was longitudinal in shape, following the tendon sheath, and the communicating duct was absent.
(13) The medical records of 25 horses with septic tenosynovitis treated over 7 years (1983 to 1989) were reviewed to determine clinical features of the disease and response to treatment.
(14) Gonococcal infection must be considered in the differential diagnosis of migratory polyarthralgia, tenosynovitis, oligoarthritis, fever or unusual skin lesions.
(15) As the management of the H. influenzae tenosynovitis would differ from that due to other causes, the addition of H. influenzae type b to a differential of tenosynovitis should be considered.
(16) In nine birds tenosynovitis, characterised by a marked inflammatory response, was identified.
(17) We report a patient with sarcoidosis who presented with a large subcutaneous plaque of the palm and flexor tenosynovitis of the middle finger.
(18) Clinical examination of 15 patients with the superior oblique tendon sheath syndrome showed that 12 of them had some evidence of stenosing tenosynovitis.
(19) This is the first report of a patient with a history of painless chronic flexor tenosynovitis caused by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans.
(20) De Quervain's tenosynovitis was the only diagnosis for two thirds of the patients.