Familial granulomatous arthritis (Blau syndrome) with granulomatous renal lesions.

doi:10.1016/s0022-3476(98)70286-0

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Familial granulomatous arthritis (Blau syndrome) with granulomatous renal lesions.

The Journal of pediatrics - 1 Sept 1998

Ting S S, Ziegler J, Fischer E

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Blau syndrome is a granulomatous disease of the skin, eyes, and joints, usually without visceral involvement. It is inherited in a autosomal dominant manner. The Blau susceptibility locus has been mapped to chromosome 16 p 12-q21. A recent report has added liver granulomata. We describe a family...

Topics

Acute Kidney Injury
Adult
Arthritis
Child, Preschool
Chromosome Mapping
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16
Eye Diseases
Female
Genes, Dominant
Granulomatous Disease, Chronic
Humans
Infant
Kidney Diseases
Liver Diseases
Male
Phenotype
Skin Diseases
Syndrome

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