Title |
Recurrent knee arthritis diagnosed as juvenile idiopathic arthritis with a 10-year asymptomatic period after arthroscopic synovectomy: a case report
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Published in |
Journal of Medical Case Reports, June 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1752-1947-7-166 |
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Authors |
Atsushi Teramoto, Kota Watanabe, Yuichiro Kii, Miki Kudo, Hidenori Otsubo, Takuro Wada, Toshihiko Yamashita |
Abstract |
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with arthritis of unknown etiology that begins before the age of 16 and persists for longer than 6 weeks. The frequency of recurrence after arthroscopic synovectomy in patients with oligoarthritis juvenile idiopathic arthritis was reported to be lower than that in patients with polyarthritis. However, recurrence in cases of oligoarthritis after arthroscopic knee synovectomy was shown to be 67% in one recent study and, furthermore, a shorter period free from recurrence was also reported after synovectomy. Here we report a child who suffered recurrent knee arthritis with a 10-year asymptomatic period after arthroscopic synovectomy. |
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