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AAP Grand Rounds 2:38 (1999)
© 1999 American Academy of Pediatrics

RHEUMATOLOGY

JRA: A Single, Small Joint May be the Presenting Complaint

Source: Sharma S, Sherry DD. Joint distribution at presentation in children with pauciarticular arthritis. J Pediatr. 1999;134(5):642–643.

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Pauciarticular (also called "oligoarticular") onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) is defined as arthritis involving four or fewer joints.1 In many children, only a single joint is involved with the knee being the one most often affected.2 The authors of this study retrospectively reviewed the charts of 215 patients in Seattle with pauciarticular JRA, who collectively had 357 affected joints. The joint . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Suzanne Bowyer, MD, FAAP
Rheumatology, James Whitcomb Riley Hospital, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN