Definitions
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- adjective pathology That affects a few
joints of the body
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some of the youngest patients with JIA (2 years of age on average) often have arthritis only in a few joints (oligoarticular JIA).
Penn State Live 2010
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We aimed to test the association between animal contact in infancy and oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (OA JIA).
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We aimed to test the association between animal contact in infancy and oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (OA JIA).
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In this Review, we discuss four subtypes of JIA: persistent oligoarticular, extended oligoarticular, rheumatoid-factor-positive polyarticular and rheumatoid-factor-negative polyarticular.
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Tumor necrosis factor seems to be a key mediator of both polyarticular and oligoarticular JIA, especially in the extended oligoarticular subtype, although elevated levels of other cytokines are also observed.
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* Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (sJIA) is one of the five major types of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) (along with oligoarticular JIA, polyarticular JIA, enthesitis related arthritis and psoriatic arthritis). sJIA is characterised by arthritis, fever and a salmon-pink rash.
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