HYPERMOBILITY SYNDROME MIMICKING JUVENILE CHRONIC ARTHRITIES
- 1 May 1982
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Rheumatology
- Vol. 21 (2) , 78-80
- https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/21.2.78
Abstract
It has been estimated that hypermobility of joints occurring in subjects not believed to be suffering from clinicaly identifiable heritable disorders of connective tissue is present in approximately 10% of bealthy subjects (1,2). It seems highly likely that in the majority of hypermobile subjects symptoms are not experienced. IT is now well established that hypermobility may present in a rheumatology clinic with articular complaints which include recurrent joint efusions, predisposition to the effects of trauma, backache, recurrent dislocation of joints, and probably premature osteoarthrosis(3). The purpose of this comunication is to describe an unusual presentation of hypermobility in which an adolescent presented with a chronic arthropathy of her fingers which mimicked juvenile chronic arthritisKeywords
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