Martone Giulia, Thomas Richard D, Keuchle Joseph, Abdul-Aziz Rabheh
Department of Pediatrics, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, USA.
Department of Radiology, John R. Oishei Children's Hospital, Buffalo, USA.
Cureus. 2021 Jan 9;13(1):e12596. doi: 10.7759/cureus.12596.
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a group of childhood inflammatory arthropathies which has variable clinical presentations and can affect multiple joints including the spine. Arthritis in facet joints is rare and very unusual to be the only presentation of JIA. We report a 16-year-old female who presented with back pain and stiffness, in which CT of the lumbar spine showed evidence of facet joint erosion and pelvis MRI showed facet joint arthritis consistent with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
幼年特发性关节炎(JIA)是一组儿童期炎性关节病,临床表现多样,可累及包括脊柱在内的多个关节。小关节关节炎罕见,极少作为JIA的唯一表现。我们报告一名16岁女性,以背痛和僵硬为表现,腰椎CT显示小关节侵蚀,骨盆MRI显示符合幼年特发性关节炎的小关节关节炎。