Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology

BASIC CONCEPTS 1 C H A P T E R 1 Introduction to the Study of Rheumatic C H A P T E R 2 Structure and Function C H A P T E R 3 The Immune System and the Inflammatory Response C H A P T E R 4 Integrative Genomics C H A P T E R 5 Pharmacology and Drug Therapy C H A P T E R 6 Design, Measurement and Analysis of Clinical Investigations C H A P T E R 7 Assessment of Health Status, Function and Quality of Life Outcomes: Methodology and Instruments C H A P T E R 8 A General Approach to Management of Rheumatic Disease in Children C H A P T E R 9 Chronic Arthritis in Childhood C H A P T E R 1 0 Polyarthritis C H A P T E R 1 1 Oligoarthritis C H A P T E R 1 2 Systemic Arthritis C H A P T E R 1 3 Juvenile Ankylosing Spondylitis C H A P T E R 1 4 Psoriatic Arthritis C H A P T E R 1 5 Arthropathies of Inflammatory Bowel Disease C H A P T E R 1 6 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus C H A P T E R 1 7 Neonatal Lupus Erythematosus C H A P T E R 1 8 Juvenile Dermatomyositis C H A P T E R 1 9 The Systemic Sclerodermas and Related Disorders C H A P T E R 2 0 Localized Sclerodermas C H A P T E R 2 1 Overlap Syndromes C H A P T E R 2 2 Vasculitis and its Classification C H A P T E R 2 3 Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis C H A P T E R 2 4 Polyarteritis Nodosa and Related C H A P T E R 2 5 Kawasaki Disease C H A P T E R 2 6 Granulomatous Vasculitis, Giant Cell Arteritis and Sarcoidosis C H A P T E R 2 7 Behcet's Disease C H A P T E R 2 8 Infectious Arthritis and Osteomyelitis C H A P T E R 2 9 Lyme Disease C H A P T E R 3 0 Reactive Arthritis Ruben Burgos-Vargas and Janitzia Vazquez-Mellado C H A P T E R 3 1 Acute Rheumatic Fever and Post-streptocococcal C H A P T E R 3 2 Musculoskeletal Manifestations of Systemic Disease C H A P T E R 3 3 Immunodeficiencies and the Rheumatic Diseases C H A P T E R 3 4 Periodic Fever Syndromes in Children C H A P T E R 3 5 Cryopyrin associated Periodic Syndrome C H A P T E R 3 6 Noninflammatory Musculoskeletal Pain Conditions C H A P T E R 3 7 Pain and the Pain Amplification Syndromes C H A P T E R 3 8 Skeletal Maturation and Bone Mineralization in the Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases C H A P T E R 3 9 Skeletal Malignancies and Related Disorders C H A P T E R 4 0 Primary Disorders of Bone and Connective Tissues