Original Article

Food Hypersensitivity Simulating Rheumatoid Arthritis

Authors: BERNARD M. ZUSSMAN M.D.

Abstract

The author points to the occasional patient who presents the clinical picture seemingly of rheumatoid arthritis and who has, rather, hypersensitivity to some food to account for the symptoms. This emphasizes the need for the clinician to be alert always to the possibility of an allergic phenomenon simulating a fairly well-defined clinical entity.

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