Milwaukee disease is a rapidly progressive destructive arthritis of the shoulders resulting from intraarticular crystal deposition; we describe a patient with rupture of a synovial cyst in the shoulder.
A 79-year-old man with a background of arterial hypertension, treated with amlodipine besylate and aspirin, was hospitalized because of progressive shoulder pain, swelling, and limitation. On admission, shoulder synovitis with large effusions on the left and severe tenderness …