Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Complicated with Atlantoaxial Subluxation: A Case Report

Year 2022, Volume: 4 - Supplement 1, 143 - 145, 01.04.2022

Yağmur Çakır , Belkis Nihan Coskun , Nihal Lermi , Zeynep Yılmaz Bozkurt , Ali Ekin , Hüseyin Ediz Dalkılıç , Yavuz Pehlivan

https://doi.org/10.46310/tjim.1070809

Abstract

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is a rheumatological disease that starts before 16 years and involves joints. Many complications such as bone erosions and joint destruction can be seen in the course of the disease. Herein, we presented a case of juvenile idiopathic arthritis complicated by atlantoaxial subluxation followed for 14 years.

Keywords

Atlantoaxial, Subluxation, Arthritis, rheumatoid, Juvenile

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