Inflammatory arthritis in children with osteochondrodysplasias
- Rosie Scuccimarria,d,
- E Michel Azouzb,e,
- Karen N Watanabe Duffya,d,
- François Fassierc,f,
- Ciarán M Duffya,d
- aDivision of Rheumatology, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, bDivision of Radiology, Montreal Children's Hospital, cDivision of Orthopaedic Surgery, Montreal Children's Hospital, dDepartment of Paediatrics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, eDepartment of Radiology, McGill University, fDepartment of Surgery, McGill University
- Dr CM Duffy, Division of Rheumatology, Montreal Children's Hospital, 2300 Tupper street, Room C503, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3H 1P3 Email: ciaran.duffy{at}muhc.mcgill.ca
- Accepted 10 April 2000
Abstract
Osteochondrodysplasias are a heterogeneous group of genetic skeletal dysplasias. Patients with these diseases commonly develop an early degenerative arthritis or osteoarthritis. Occasional observations of inflammatory arthritis have been made in this population but such observations are based on clinical grounds alone without confirmatory imaging studies. Four patients followed up in a paediatric rheumatology clinic with three different skeletal dysplasias, who had both clinical and radiological evidence of an inflammatory arthritis and coexistent degenerative arthritis, are described.
Footnotes
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Dr R Scuccimarri is a clinical fellow of the Arthritis Society (Canada). Dr CM Duffy is a senior research scholar of the Arthritis Society (Canada).
