This document contains 6 figures showing images of hands and feet with different pathological conditions that cause dactylitis. Each figure is labeled and briefly described. Figure B 31-1 shows bone changes in the hands due to sickle cell anemia. Figure B 31-2 depicts a phalanx with tuberculosis. Figure B 31-3 demonstrates granulomas and bone formation from yaws. Figure B 31-4 pictures a phalanx with destruction and calcification from congenital syphilis. Figure B 31-5 shows changes in the fingers from sarcoidosis. Figure B 31-6 portrays cysts and new bone growth in a finger due to tuberous sclerosis.
2. CLINICAL IMAGAGING
AN ATLAS OF DIFFERENTIAL DAIGNOSIS
EISENBERG
DR. Muhammad Bin Zulfiqar
PGR-FCPS III SIMS/SHL
3. • Fig B 31-1 Hand-foot syndrome in sickle cell
anemia. Diffuse destruction of the shafts of
multiple phalanges and metacarpals is due to
infarction. There are reactive bone changes
with sclerosis and periosteal thickening.
4. • Fig B 31-2 Tuberculosis. Typical expansion of a phalanx
along with irregular destruction of bone architecture. Note
the absence of periosteal reaction, which differentiates the
appearance from that of syphilitic dactylitis.38
5. • Fig B 31-3 Yaws. Examples of cortical and
medullary granulomas along with intense
periosteal new bone formation.10
6. • Fig B 31-4 Congenital syphilis. Typical
destructive expansion of a phalanx with
periosteal calcification forming a dense shell
around the lesion.
7. • Fig B 31-5 Sarcoidosis. Destructive changes
involving the middle phalanx of the second finger,
with soft-tissue swelling about the third proximal
interphalangeal joint and cortical thinning and a
lacelike trabecular pattern affecting the proximal
phalanges of the third and fourth digits.
8. • Fig B 31-6 Tuberous sclerosis. Cyst-like expansion and
characteristic wavy periosteal new bone formation about
the proximal and middle phalanges of the second digit.
Periosteal new bone formation is also seen along the shaft
of the second metacarpal.