Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

Abstract

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis differs in many respects from the adult disease. Diagnosis may remain obscure unless full advantage is taken of all clinical and laboratory clues. The physical, emotional and psychologic development of the child poses unique problems in physical and surgical management and special problems in drug management. Crippling disease may be avoided, and the prognosis is usually good for remission of inflammatory activity and for achievement of a gratifying life-style.