Textbook of pediatric rheumatology
By: [edited by] James T. Cassidy, Ross E. Petty.
Contributors: Cassidy, James T.; Petty, Ross E.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 819
Subjects: Pediatric rheumatology.; Rheumatism in children.; Rheumatic Diseases -- Child.; Arthritis -- Child.; Connective Tissue Diseases -- Child.; Vasculitis -- Child.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Introduction to the study of rheumatic diseases in children; title: Ch. 2. Anatomy and physiology of the musculoskeletal system; title: Ch. 3. Anatomy and pathophysiology of pain; title: Ch. 4. The immune system; title: Ch. 5. Mediators of inflammation; title: Ch. 6. Genomics; title: Ch. 7. Pharmacology and drug therapy; title: Ch. 8. Design, measurement, and analysis of clinical investigations; title: Ch. 9. Assessment of health status, function, and outcome; title: Ch. 10. A general approach to management of children with rheumatic diseases; title: Ch. 11. The juvenile idiopathic arthritides; title: Ch. 12. Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis; title: Ch. 13. Juvenile ankylosing spondylitis; title: Ch. 14. Psoriatic arthritis; title: Ch. 15. Arthropathies of inflammatory bowel disease; title: Ch. 16. Nonrheumatic musculoskeletal pain; title: Ch. 17. Idiopathic musculoskeletal pain syndromes; title: Ch. 18. Systemic lupus erythematosus; title: Ch. 19. Neonatal lupus erythematosus; title: Ch. 20. Juvenile dermatomyositis; title: Ch. 21. The systemic sclerodermas and related disorders; title: Ch. 22. Localized sclerodermas; title: Ch. 23. Overlap syndromes; title: Ch. 24. Uncommon chronic systemic inflammatory diseases; title: Ch. 25. Vasculitis and its classification; title: Ch. 26. Leukocytoclastic vasculitis; title: Ch. 27. Kawasaki disease; title: Ch. 28. Polyarteritis nodosa and related vasculitides; title: Ch. 29. Granulomatous vasculitis, giant cell arteritis, and sarcoidosis; title: Ch. 30. Behcet's Disease and other vasculitides; title: Ch. 31. Infectious arthritis and osteomyelitis; title: Ch. 32. Lyme disease; title: Ch. 33. Reactive arthritis; title: Ch. 34. Acute rheumatic fever and poststreptococcal reactive arthritis; title: Ch. 35. Immunodeficiencies and the rheumatic diseases; title: Ch. 36. Musculoskeletal manifestations of systemic disease; title: Ch. 37. Primary disorders of bone and connective tissues; title: Ch. 38. Skeletal malignancies and related disorders.