Rheumatoid arthritis: presentation
Typical features
Other presentations:
- swollen, painful joints in hands and feet
- stiffness worse in the morning
- gradually gets worse with larger joints becoming involved
- presentation usually insidiously develops over a few months
- positive 'squeeze test' - discomfort on squeezing across the metacarpal or metatarsal joints
Other presentations:
- acute onset with marked systemic disturbance
- relapsing/remitting monoarthritis of different large joints (palindromic rheumatism)