Arthritis

Raro, atipico e simulatore: l’osteoma osteoide che non ti aspetti

Caridi C, Rosina S.

2026/3 — pag. 184-187 — DOI

An 11-year-old girl presented with limping and right hip pain, initially mistaken for a rheumatological disease (i.e. arthritis) due to the presence of joint fluid. Further investigations showed the real cause: an osteoid osteoma....

Una Kawasaki che mima una Guillain-Barré

Miotto D

2025/8 — pag. 220-221 — DOI

A 19-month-old boy presented with gait instability and lower limb weakness, initially suggestive of Guillain-Barré syndrome or transverse myelitis. Clinical features including fever, rash, conjunctivitis, sterile pyuria and elevated inflammation mark...

Infezione da parvovirus B19: non solo “faccia schiaffeggiata”

Riccio S, D’Urzo G, Amendolara M, Aurino A, Avallone G, Prete A, Villano P, Masini L.

2025/4 — pag. 259-260 — DOI

Parvovirus B19 infection occurs in children with the typical “slapped cheek” rash, associated or not with fever and general malaise. The most affected age group is school-age children (4-11 years), with outbreaks in winter and summer seasons. Alongsi...

Monoartrite: artrite idiopatica giovanile o malattia reumatica?

Barachino A.

2024/10 — pag. 660 — DOI

A 9-year-old child presents to the emergency room with fever, pain, and swelling in the right knee. Based on the tests, the onset of pauciarticular rheumatoid arthritis is hypothesized. After further medical history assessment and a cardiology consul...

Non tutti gli ascessi sono infetti

Crotti B, Fuoti M, Dotta L, Girelli MF, Meini A, Badolato R

2024/4 — pag. 82-83 — DOI

The authors describe the case of a 12-year-old Egyptian girl with a painful, aseptic swelling on the upper right eyelid associated with diarrhoea eventually diagnosed as IBD linked sterile abscess syndrome....

Artrite che si sposta, nell'ecocardio la risposta

Ballarò G.

2024/1 — pag. 50-53 — DOI

The case of a Swiss boy presenting with migrant arthritis and finally diagnosed with rheumatic fever is described....

Un puzzle in tre pezzi

Barachino A.

2023/8 — pag. 525-526 — DOI

The case of a 13-year-old boy presenting with conjunctivitis, urethritis and arthritis (affecting hands and knees) after a Salmonella D infection is discussed. ...

Una “vistosa” vasculite con edema, che riguarda gli arti e il viso e risparmia il tronco

Marchetti F, Izzo BPE, Scaioli M, Graziani V, Turlà G, Mambelli L.

2023/5 — pag. 301-305 — DOI

Acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy (AHEI) is a small vessel vasculitis that affects boys between 4 months and 2 years. It presents with a characteristic purpuric skin rash but with marked bruising and “typical” localizations in auricles and is ofte...

Se cammina male e fa infezioni, guardale gli occhi!

De Nardi L.

2022/10 — pag. 652-652 — DOI

A 7-year-old girl with a longstanding history of recurrent pneumonia, arthritis and unsteady gait was finally diagnosed with ataxia-telangiectasia. The classical bulbar conjunctival telangiectasia was present and helped to make the diagnosis....

Approccio pratico al bambino “sempre stanco”

Gortani G.

2022/3 — pag. 168-172 — DOI

Fatigue is a common, nonspecific symptom with many different aetiologies. The term “fatigue” can be used to describe muscular weakness, difficulty or inability to initiate activity (subjective sense of weakness), reduced capacity to maintain activity...

Un vaccino falcemico

Sambugaro D

2021/6 — pag. 394-394 — DOI

A case of a sickle cell crisis initially diagnosed as post vaccination arthritis is described. The author stresses the high specificity of acute dactylitis with respect to the diagnosis of sickle cell anaemia....

Corea, artrite, eritema marginato: malattia reumatica e diagnosi differenziali

A.M.Q. Alberio, F. Pieroni, G. Bini, A. Bonuccelli, A. Orsini, D. Peroni, R. Consolini

2020/10 — pag. 643-650 — DOI

The revision of the Jones criteria by the American Heart Association allowed the identification and diagnosis of a greater number of cases of Rheumatic Disease (RD); however, the higher incidence of RD is associated with "pathomorphic" phenotypic pic...

Tubercolosi al ginocchio

A. Caserta

2020/3 — pag. 59-59

Febbre persistente, dolore toracico e artrite di Takayasu

B. Filippini, B. Bigucci, F. Mascella, M. Gattorno, G. Vergine

2018/5 — pag. 331-334

Takayasu’s arteritis (TA) is an extremely rare vasculitis that presents in paediatric age that typically affects adolescents. Clinical manifestations of TA are polymorph and in the fists stage of the disease systemic aspecific symptoms such as fev...

Quando una artrite di un ginocchio nasconde una malattia di Crohn

M. Mazzolai

2018/5 — pag. 328-330

Artriti e malattia infiammatoria cronica intestinale

M. Bramuzzo, E. Battistuz, A. Taddio, A. Ventura

2017/7 — pag. 441-446

Background - Up to 36% of children affected by an Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) have an associated extraintestinal manifestation, which in 7-25% cases consists in an articular involvement. Objective - The aim of the present study is to describe...

L’altra faccia della medaglia

B. Sacher

2016/9

Un reumatismo vecchio stampo

G. Ferrara, T. Giani, G. Simonini, R. Cimaz

2016/7 — pag. 461-462

La malattia reumatica nel 2016

S. Pastore, F. Marchetti, A. Taddio, M.S. Conte, M. Tubaro, A. Ventura

2016/7 — pag. 429-436

Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF) continues to be a major health hazard in most developing countries as well as sporadically in developed economies. Despite reservations about the utility, Doppler echocardiographic studies have identified a massive burde...

Casi indimenticabili (e trucchi del mestiere) Leucemia o artrite? Genetica: chi più spende meno spende? Vitamina D e polmoniti ricorrenti Coartazione aortica: brutta bestia anche con lo screening Vaccinazioni: chi la dura la vince? “San Cortisone” e artrite settica

2015/8 — pag. 485-486

Andrea e il dolore testicolare

M. Innocente Cavallo

2014/10

Una storia che si ripete ovvero... una zoppia “alla Benigni”

A. Delise

2014/3

Un male dell'altro mondo

S. Lasagni, G. Boschi, I. Dodi, M.A. Bandello, A. Defanti, S. Amarri

2012/5

Due lesioni ossee

C. Gussoni

2009/9

Un caso di zoppia

C. Galletto, N. Bertorello, E. Barisone, R. Mazzone, A. Andreacchio

2007/1 — pag. 51-53

In childhood and adolescence articular pains are frequent and in most of the cases they disappear rapidly and spontaneously. In a few patients the cause of the symptoms is an organic and/or a systemic pathology that require accurate examination a...

Cani, roditori e...M.I.C.I.A.M.I.C.I

2006/9 — pag. 598-599

Rash orticarioide alla nascita e malattia infiammatoria cronica

R. Meneghetti, A. Favia, D. Giglia, L. Lepore

2006/4 — pag. 257-258

We describe two unrelated children with neonatal onset of urticarial skin rash and subsequent development of a chronic multisystemic inflammatory syndrome, characterized by fever episodes, deforming arthropaty, central-nervous-system involvement, sen...

Osteomielite multifocale ricorrente e biopsia ossea:la difficoltà di sentirsi sicuri nell'inusuale.

P. Salierno, G. Cont, F. Verzegnassi, E. Da Dalt, E. Faleschini, S. Bertrand, F. Zennaro

2006/2

Sperimentazione clinica controllata sull’efficacia dei braccialetti magnetici nell’alleviare il dolore dell’osteoartrite d’anca e di ginocchio

2005/2 — pag. 115-116

Le affezioni suppurative dello scheletro: osteomielite, artrite, discite

C. Trevisiol, I. Berti, F. Marchetti

2003/7 — pag. 431-438

Osteomyelitis and suppurative arthritis are infections not extremely common in children, but important because they can lead to severe consequences and permanent disabilities. In this article we face the etiology, pathogenesis, clinical signs, diag...

Rash e artrite: una piccola epidemia familiare

2002/9 — pag. 606-606

Report of 3 family cases of atypical rash with polyarthritis. The disease first appeared in a female child and then, after about a week, in her parents. Documented aetiology: Parvovirus B19....

Malaria: diagnosi tempestiva

2002/9 — pag. 606-606

Report of a malaria case (temperature, convulsions, anaemia, splenomegaly) back from a trip to Africa....

Tre membri familiari con rash ed artrite

F. Marchetti, E. Barbi, S. Centuori, P. Iaschi, A. Lenhardt, I. Brunoi, L. Lepore, G. Longo

2002/8

Una porpora di Schoenlein-Henoch plurisintomatica

2002/4 — pag. 260-260

A case of multi-symptom Schönlein-Henoch’s purpura case which started with convulsions, and required surgery because of a torsion of the spermatic cord and steroid because of intestinal vasculitis....

Immagini nella malattia di Crohn: un’analisi ragionata

A. Ventura et al.

2000/9 — pag. 588-589

Rash cutaneo e artrite in un bambino di 4 anni

R. Cimaz, F. Falcini

1999/6 — pag. 351-352

La quinta malattia

F. Panizon

1999/1 — pag. 50-52