Clin Exp Rheumatol
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Comparative Study
The patient-rated wrist evaluation (PRWE): cross-cultural adaptation into German and evaluation of its psychometric properties.
To cross-culturally adapt the Patient-Rated Wrist Evaluation form (PRWE) into German (PRWE-G) and to evaluate its reliability and validity. ⋯ The PRWE-G represents a valid and reliable instrument to evaluate self-rated outcome in German-speaking patients with hand and wrist pathology.
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To investigate the association between articular chondrocalcinosis and calcification of the atlantoaxial region on a cervical computed tomography (CT) scan and to explore the relation between such calcifications and neck pain. ⋯ These results suggest that CPPD deposition disease frequently involves the cervical spine. Although such calcification often remains asymptomatic, it may be associated with attacks of acute neck pain with segmentary stiffness, fever, and an increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate, sometimes mimicking PMR and/or GCA or neurological symptoms.