[Spinal pain in school children].

The investigation was carried out to determine the prevalence of back pain among the population of the school-children aged from 6 to 17 yrs. 3386 children from primary Warsaw schools randomly chosen, were investigated according to the questionnaire based on the diagnostic criteria of juvenile spondyloarthropathies (JSA). Total prevalence of spinal pain was 10.

Favourable outcome in 135 children with juvenile systemic sclerosis: results of a multi-national survey.

Objective: To increase the current knowledge of the outcome of juvenile systemic sclerosis (jSSc), which is currently limited.

Methods: In order to investigate the patient outcome and prognostic factors, starting October 1994, we distributed questionnaires to 324 paediatric rheumatology centres.

Results: Until 15 May 1998 responses from 46 centres were received, 34 of which returned completed questionnaires on a total of 135 patients.

[Chronic, infantile, neurologic, cutaneous and articular syndrome (CINCA) in an infant].

Background: CINCA syndrome is a clinical syndrome of unclear etiology, characterized by a chronic multi-organ inflammatory process unsusceptible to treatment.

Case Report: An 18-month-old boy was admitted because he suffered, since the age of 2 months, from cutaneous, articular and neurological changes, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, choroiditis and psychosomatic development retardation. These clinical symptoms were unsusceptible to anti-inflammatory and antihistaminic drugs.

Some remarks on management of juvenile chronic arthritis complicated by amyloidosis.

A retrospective study of 66 juvenile arthritic patients with reactive amyloidosis for a mean 12 +/- 10.7 years (1 to 30 years) from the onset of amyloidosis was performed. Forty-seven of them received continuous long-term chlorambucil therapy.

Internal organ involvement in juvenile connective tissue disease.

Using noninvasive investigative techniques, cardiac, pulmonary and gastrointestinal abnormalities were found in patients with all types of connective tissue diseases. Impedance rheography suggested impaired myocardial function. Abnormalities of pulmonary function included a decrease in diffusing lung capacity for CO (DL) values followed by restrictive ventilatory defects and mild alveolar hyperventilation.

Considerations on juvenile chronic arthritis with generalized (polysystemic) onset.

A trial is presented of evaluation of the frequency of clinical symptoms and signs, activity of disease process, and course of the disease in a group of children with juvenile chronic arthritis with generalized manifestations at onset. The analysed group comprised 36 children aged from 2 to 15 years. The duration of the disease was from 6 months to 13 years.

Differential diagnosis of neoplastic and rheumatic diseases in children.

The early phase of the disease in 30 children referred to this Clinic with the diagnosis of rheumatic disease and whose condition was ultimately diagnosed as malignancy was analysed. A correct diagnosis was established after a period of 1-22 months. thus acute leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and solid tumours were diagnosed in 13, 7, 3, 7 consecutive patients.