Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology examines the full spectrum of rheumatologic diseases and non-rheumatologic musculoskeletal disorders in children and adolescents, detailing the presentation, differential diagnosis, course, management, and prognosis of every major condition. Drs Ross E. Petty, Ronald M. Laxer, Carol B. Lindsley and Lucy Wedderburn discuss recent developments in diagnosis, treatment, genetics, immunology, imaging, and more. This new edition features access to the fully searchable text online at www.expertconsult.com, where you""ll find a downloadable image gallery and exclusive web-only content for added value.

CONTENTS:
Section 1: Basic Concepts and Fundamentals
1. Pediatric Rheumatology: the Study of Rheumatic Diseases in Childhood and Adolescence
2. Structure and Function
3. Immunology: Building Blocks
4. Immunology: Translation
5. Integrative Genomics
Evaluation
6. TRIAL DESIGN, MEASUREMENT, AND ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATIONS
7. Assessment of Health Status
8. Pain and its Assessment
9. Radiology
10. Laboratory Investigations
Management
11. Managing Children with Rheumatic Diseases
12. Pharmacology Non-Biologics
13. Pharmacology Biologics
14. Occupational and Physical Therapy for Rheumatic Diseases

Section 2: Chronic Arthritis
15. Chronic Arthritis in Children and Adolescence
16. Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
17. POLYARTICULAR JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS
18. OLIGOARTICULAR JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS
19. Enthesitis Related Arthritis
20. Juvenile Psoriatic Arthritis
21. Arthropathies of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
22. UVEITIS IN JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS

Section 3: Systemic Connective Tissue Diseases
23. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
24. Antiphospholipid Syndrome
25. Neonatal Lupus
26. Juvenile Dermatomyositis
27. Systemic Sclerodermas
28. Localized Sclerodermas
29. MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE AND UNDIFFERENTIATED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE
30. Sjogren""s Syndrome
31. Raynaud Phenomenon

Section 4: Vasculitis
32. Vasculitis And Its Classification
33. Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis: Henoch-Schönlein Purpura, and Hypersensitivity Vasculitis
34. POLYARTERITIS NODOSA
35. Kawasaki Disease
36. Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody Associated Vasculitis
37. CNS Vasculitis
38. Other Vasculitis
39. PEDIATRIC SARCOIDOSIS
40. Behcet Disease

Section 5: Arthritis Related to Infection
41. Infectious Arthritis and Osteomyelitis
42. Lyme Disease
43. Reactive Arthritis
44. Rheumatic Fever
45. Musculoskeletal Manifestations of Systemic Disease
46. Immunodeficiencies
47. Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases
48. Autoinflammatory Bone Disorders
49. Macrophage Activation Syndrome
50. Malignancies

Section 6: Noninflammatory Musculoskeletal Pain

51. Noninflammatory Musculoskeletal Pain
52. Pain Amplification Syndromes
53. Disorders of Bone Mineralization
54. Primary Disorders of Connective Tissue