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Clinical patterns of juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Zambia
14 Sept 2013
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BACKGROUND: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a heterogeneous group of disorders with different disease manifestations among various populations. There are few reports of JIA among indigenous Africans especially sub-Saharan Africa. We present herein the clinical patterns of JIA encountered at a tertiary hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. METHOD: Hospital records of patients with a diagnosis of chronic arthritis...
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