[Diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis -- is not uncommon in children. Early difficult differential with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, but if the following points help in the early diagnosis of this disease : ¢Ù men; Second, children with advanced disease; ¢Û recurrent arthritis less hair to remove large joints; ¢Ü with recurrent iridocyclitis; ¢Ý X-ray with sacroiliitis; ¢Þ BASDAI positive family history or with the same disease. Differential diagnosis of inflammation with lumbar intervertebral lesions spinal osteochondrosis (scheuermann disease) and spinal cord tumors arising from the differential back pain , but also with young deformation osteochondrosis (legg Perthesis disease) and congenital hip relations Festival dislocation of the hip and thigh pain differential. In addition, ulcerative colitis, enteritis of limited small, psoriatic arthritis and spondylitis Reiter syndrome could be merged. But all these things have their own disease spondylitis Clinical characteristics can identify.

This article was posted on 2007-02-27