balanitis/diarrhea

BACKGROUND Concurrent rheumatoid factor seropositivity is occasionally detected in ankylosing spondylitis and often causes confusion in clinical routine. Overlap between various seronegative arthritides is a known but uncommon association. Differentiation of spondyloarthropathy from rheumatoid

OBJECTIVE When evaluating patients for spondyloarthropathy, clinicians use the 'possible spondyloarthropathy' category to indicate that they are unsure about the diagnosis. We sought to determine whether Amor's criteria or the European Spondyloarthropathy Study Group (ESSG) criteria could lift thi

We report a case of Crohn's disease with involvement of the foreskin in a 12-year-old boy. One year previously, on the basis of clinical features (diarrhea with blood, perianal fissures) and histologic examination, a diagnosis of Crohn's disease was made. Subsequently, he developed phimosis and

OBJECTIVE To study the clinical features of Reiter's syndrome (RS) in children. METHODS Twenty-two patients with RS were referred to our department between August 2002 and September 2008. Their clinical features were analyzed retrospectively. RESULTS Of the 22 patients, 19 were male, only 3 were

OBJECTIVE To study clinical characteristics of children with enthesitis related arthritis (ERA). METHODS Twelve patients fulfilling the international league of associations for rheumatology (ILAR) criteria for classification of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and ERA were referred to our

Although the first Aeromonas strain was described by Zimmermann as early as in 1890, it took 60 years until Caselitz established human pathogenicity of strains then called "Vibrio jamaicensis". Since then, and especially in the last 10 years, there have been increasing numbers of reports on

Enteric pathogens are an endemic cause of acute diarrheal diseases among Peruvians. The frequency of HLA-B27 in the general population (0%-3%) is lower than that among Caucasians in the United States, Canada, and Europe (6%-14%). It was believed that both of these factors were likely to interact to

Clinical, laboratory and radiological findings were evaluated in 26 children with Reiter's syndrome, all of whom met the 1982 diagnostic criteria of A. Calin. Twenty-two of the patients (85%) were male and 4 were female (15%); the mean age at onset was 10.5 years (range 4-15.5 yrs). Mean follow-up