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Biological classification of childhood arthritis: roadmap to a molecular nomenclature.
Nature reviews. Rheumatology - 1 May 2021
Nigrovic Peter A, Colbert Robert A, Holers V Michael, Ozen Seza, Ruperto Nicolino, Thompson Susan D, Wedderburn Lucy R, Yeung Rae S M, Martini Alberto
Abstract excerpt
Chronic inflammatory arthritis in childhood is heterogeneous in presentation and course. Most forms exhibit clinical and genetic similarity to arthritis of adult onset, although at least one phenotype might be restricted to children. Nevertheless, paediatric and adult rheumatologists have historically addressed disease classification separately, yielding a juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) nomenclature that...
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