Childhood Arthritic Conditions

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- Considerations for the Child w/ Joint Swelling, Limited Motion, and Pain
    - synovial fluid exam
    - polyarthralgia:
            - polyarticular JRA (symmetric polyarthralgia);
            - pauciarticular
            - leukemia
            - hemophilia
            - lyme disease
            - acute rheumatic fever
            - septic arthritis
    - incidious / chronic presentation of joint arthralgias:
            - periarticular tumor
            - oseoid osteoma
            - pauciarticular JRA
            - polyarticular JRA
            - seronegative arthritides
            - osteochondroses (LCP, osgood-schlatter dz)
            - slipped capital femoral epiphysis
            - lyme disease
            - tuberculosis
            - toxic synovitis
            - reflex neurovascular dystrophy
            - hemophilia
            - pigmented villonodular synovitis
            - ehlers-danlos syndrome
    - acute / toxic presentation of joint arthralgias
            - systemic JRA
            - septic arthritis:
            - leukemia
            - systemic lupus erythematosus
            - reiter's syndrome
            - sickle cell anemia
            - acute rheumatic fever
            - vasculitis:   (HSP / kawasaki's)
            - inflammatory bowel disease

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Disorders of the sacro-iliac joint in children.

Pediatric spondyloarthropathies.

Acne arthralgia.