Psoriatic arthritis in childhood
Sills, E.M.
Johns Hopkins Medical Journal 146(2): 49-53
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-7263 PMID: 6153408 Document Number: 157975
Since both psoriasis and seronegative arthritis occur individually in childhood, they may be expected to occur together occasionally. Clinical features used to identify psoriatic arthritis as a disease sui generi have been assembled in groups of adult patients, establishing the justification for describing a distinct syndrome. A review of the experience in an active children's rheumatology service indicates that the syndrome of psoratic arthritis occurs in the pediatric-aged patient with sufficient frequency to qualify as a diagnostic term appropriate in the classification of childhood-onset arthritis.