Anesthesia/facial painMagnetic Resonance Imaging of Temporomandibular Joints in Children With Arthritis
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Materials and Methods
The institutional review board approved the present study (institutional review board no. M09-12-0041). A review of the radiology department database from Children's Hospital Boston identified all MRI scans of TMJs. The exclusion criteria included MRI scans of TMJs that had been obtained for reasons other than arthritis (eg, chronic dislocation, ankylosis), MRI scans that were obtained without contrast (ie, secondary to kidney disease), MRI scans of patients with other facial abnormalities that
Patient Information
A review of the radiology department database from Children's Hospital Boston during a 4-year period (January 2005 to December 2009) identified 219 patients who had undergone MRI of the TMJs. The exclusion criteria were MRI of the TMJs without arthritis (eg, chronic dislocation, ankylosis), MRI of the TMJs without contrast (ie, secondary to kidney disease), previous intra-TMJ treatment or jaw surgery, the presence of other facial abnormalities that could have affected development of the TMJ
Discussion
Juvenile chronic arthritis is a condition of unknown etiology, recently reclassified by the International League of Associations for Rheumatology as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA).9 This was done in hopes of defining clinically homogenous subsets of arthritis and thus enhancing worldwide communication among members of the pediatric rheumatology community. JIA is the most commonly diagnosed rheumatologic condition in children, with about 300,000 affected children in the United States.17 It
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Steven Whalen for assistance with gathering data for this project.
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