ARTHRITIS, PEDIATRIC AGE

ARTHRITIS, PEDIATRIC AGE

Differential Diagnosis of Juvenile Arthritis

Rheumatic Diseases of Childhood

Acute rheumatic fever

Systemic lupus erythematosus

Juvenile ankylosing spondylitis

Polymyositis and dermatomyositis

Vasculitis

Scleroderma

Psoriatic arthritis

Mixed connective tissue disease and overlap syndromes

Kawasaki disease

Behçet’s syndrome

Familial Mediterranean fever

Reiter’s syndrome

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy

Fibromyalgia (fibrositis)

Infectious Diseases

Bacterial arthritis

Viral or postviral arthritis

Fungal arthritis

Osteomyelitis

Reactive arthritis

Neoplastic Diseases

Leukemia

Lymphoma

Neuroblastoma

Primary bone tumors

Noninflammatory Disorders

Trauma

Avascular necrosis syndromes

Osteochondroses

Slipped capital femoral epiphysis

Diskitis

Patellofemoral dysfunction (chondromalacia patellae)

Toxic synovitis of the hip

Overuse syndromes

Genetic or Congenital Syndromes

Hematologic Disorders

Sickle cell disease

Hemophilia

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Miscellaneous

Growing pains

Psychogenic arthralgias (conversion reactions)

Hypermobility syndrome

Villonodular synovitis

Foreign body arthritis