Erschienen in:
01.07.2005 | Short Report
Spontaneous atlantoaxial subluxation as a presenting manifestation of juvenile ankylosing spondylitis in a female HLA-B27-negative patient
verfasst von:
Luciana Breda, Carlo Palazzi, Giuseppina de Michele, Sara De Sanctis, Francesco Chiarelli
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Pediatrics
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Ausgabe 7/2005
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Excerpt
Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic rheumatic disorder characterised primarily by inflammation of the spine and sacroiliac joints. When this disease begins in childhood, peripheral oligoarthritis affecting large joints, especially in the lower limbs, is the most common clinical manifestation [
1]. Atlantoaxial instability has been very rarely described as a late complication of juvenile ankylosing spondylitis (JAS) [
5,
7] but only in one case was it the first sign in an 11-year-old HLA B27-positive boy [
8]. We report a case of atlantoaxial subluxation as the first manifestation of JAS in a 7-year-old HLA-B27-negative girl. …