RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS IN CHILDREN
- 1 December 1947
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1908)
- Vol. 80 (6) , 771-790
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1947.00220180076006
Abstract
CHRONIC arthritis in children was first described not by Still but by Cornile1in 1864. In his classic thesis of 1897 Still2drew attention to the fact that in a series of 22 cases of chronic arthritis in children the disease occurred in 12 before the second dentition and was accompanied with changes in the viscera, generalized glandular adenopathy and multiple signs of systemic reaction. It is usually asserted that Still's disease is the less commonly occurring childhood manifestation of that disease or group of diseases which in adults is described as rheumatoid or atrophic arthritis. Still's observations have been confirmed by many observers, including Gibney3in 1912, Johannsen4in 1923 and Genthon in 1937.5Assuming for the present that Still's disease and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis are synonymous terms, one is struck by the failure of these contributors to convey more than an incomplete surveyThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: