Radiological vignette
21 September 2017
Vol. 69 No. 3 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.4081/reumatismo.2017.1009

From art to science: the functional damage due to thumb osteoarthritis finely described by Velazquez 300 years before its clinical description

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Thumb, Carpometacarpal, Osteoarthritis.
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J.H. Villafañe
mail@villafane.it
IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Milan, Italy.
R. Cantero-Tellez
Tecan Hand Center, Malaga, Spain.
S. Negrini
IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Milan; University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
P. Berjano
IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milan, Italy.
Velazquez showed to know the entity of thumb osteoarthritis by finely describing it in one of his paintings. The concepts of anatomical damage, loss of strenght, and functional impairment are transmitted to the observer.

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From art to science: the functional damage due to thumb osteoarthritis finely described by Velazquez 300 years before its clinical description. (2017). Reumatismo, 69(3), 137-139. https://doi.org/10.4081/reumatismo.2017.1009

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