ankylosis/fever

A two and half years old girl presented with severe limitation of mouth opening, facial asymmetry, inability to masticate, and proclination of the anterior maxillary and mandibular teeth. There was no history of facial trauma, infection or neonatal fevers. A diagnosis of bony ankylosis of the TMJ

A 58-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of arthralgia and bilateral temporal region pain, and a 1-month history of fever. He had had refractory neck pain since his 20s. Reduced cervical and lumbar mobility was observed. Radiographs of cervical and thoracic vertebrae disclosed

The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using preshaped hydroxyapatite/collagen condyles as carriers for platelet-rich plasma after gap arthroplasty in patients with temporomandibular ankylosis, to assess the aesthetic and functional outcomes, and to find out if neocondylar

History A 50-year-old woman presented with a 6-month history of polyarthralgia involving the left and right hands, wrists, elbows, ankles, and knees. Her pain was not associated with morning stiffness but did worsen over the course of the day. She denied experiencing fevers, chills, or mouth ulcers.

The pathological changes in juvenile chronic polyarthritis are similar to those of adult chronic polyarthritis, although perhaps rather more variable, according to the severity and the phase of the disease. The differences that are seen depend on age, developmental stage, growth, and perhaps a

A retrospective study of 100 cases of systemic juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, including 51 girls and 49 boys, is reported. Follow-up was at least three years in 83 cases, 7 years in 72 of them and 12 years in 20 of them. Patients were included in the study if they experienced high grade intermittent

In 1987, wooden slips named Zhi Chigu Fang (Chigu Decoction) were discovered on the site of the Ancient People's Dike in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province. 15 drugs with dosage were listed on the front of the wooden slip and processing on the reverse side. Though there are two academic opinions about

The collagen diseases, an ill-defined group of clinical entities, have as their basis a generalized alteration of the connective tissue, especially of its extracellular components. They include periarteritis nodosa, disseminated lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis, scleroderma, rheumatic fever and

Still's disease was reported to be a type of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA) by Still in 1897. Adult-onset Still's disease is an important clinical entity inducing fever, skin rash and polyarthritis. Spiking fever and rash are characteristic features for early diagnosis. Although chronic

We undertook a prospective study of 23 male patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) (New York Criteria), 18 HLA-B27 positive and 5 HLA-B27 negative, five of them had hyperuricemia. The following data of evolution were taken into consideration: age at onset of disease, time course of the disease,

Eleven female patients with adult-onset Still's disease were followed for 7-36 years (mean 20.2 years) after the onset of their illness. Ten of these patients had a chronic course characterized by remissions and exacerbations of arthritis associated with fever and rash. Five patients had terminal

We report the case of a 15 year-old boy, presenting with juxta-articular swellings and lacunar skeletal lesions associated with prolonged fever and cachexia. Among the multiple bacteriological samplings, only the trans-osseous puncture of a tibial lacunar lesions, yielded Bacillus tuberculosis. With