Summary
Seronegative arthritis describes a group of conditions that present with inflammatory arthritis but without a positive rheumatoid factor, hence seronegative.
A detailed history and a thorough physical examination should enable the diagnosis to be elucidated in most patients. Supporting or confirmatory data are obtained from laboratory and imaging studies.
Spondyloarthropathies, crystalline and viral arthropathies, and rheumatoid arthritis are the most common diagnoses in these patients. [1] [2]
Differential diagnosis
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- Enteropathic arthritis
- Remitting seronegative symmetric synovitis with pitting oedema syndrome
- Sarcoidosis
- Juvenile-onset or adult-onset idiopathic arthritis
- Overlap syndrome
- Sjogren's syndrome
- Scleroderma
- Polymyositis
- Dermatomyositis
- Systemic vasculitis
- Gonococcal arthritis
- Rheumatic fever
- Lyme disease
- Whipple's disease
- Tuberculous arthritis
- Paraneoplastic arthritis
- Neoplastic carcinomatosis
Last updated: Jan 08, 2013
