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Giulia Martone1, Richard D Thomas2, Joseph Keuchle3, Rabheh Abdul-Aziz4.
Abstract
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a group of childhood inflammatory arthropathies which has variable clinical presentations and can affect multiple joints including the spine. Arthritis in facet joints is rare and very unusual to be the only presentation of JIA. We report a 16-year-old female who presented with back pain and stiffness, in which CT of the lumbar spine showed evidence of facet joint erosion and pelvis MRI showed facet joint arthritis consistent with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.Entities:
Keywords: child; facet joint; juvenile idiopathic arthritis; zygapophyseal joint
Year: 2021 PMID: 33585087 PMCID: PMC7872475 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.12596
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cureus ISSN: 2168-8184