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Arlan L. Rosenbloom, MD
University of Florida College of Medicine Gainesville

JAMA. 1985;254(11):1453-1454.

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To the Editor.—

It is unfortunate that Eaton et al,¹ having recognized that their patients were "remarkably similar to the 23" reported by Jung et al,² did not then use the appropriate terminology coined by that group— "diabetic hand syndrome." Instead, they chose to use the term "limited joint mobility [LJM]," which has had a very specific application to a painless and nondisabling condition in young patients with diabetes, typically during and after adolescence and following five years' duration of diabetes.³ There are a variety of joint syndromes affecting the hand in persons with diabetes, particularly adults. To look at all joint contracture in persons with diabetes as being the same syndrome leads to the sort of muddled hypothesis formation of Eaton et al¹ in their effort to explain what appears to be a neuropathic disorder (the diabetic hand syndrome), which should respond to aldose reductase . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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