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Still's Disease
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Still's Disease A form of Juvenile Chronic Arthritis.
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Chronic
Ongoing or recurring. Chronic medical conditions include diabetes, epilepsy, and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Arthritis
Inflammation of a joint, usually accompanied by pain, swelling, and stiffness, and resulting from infection, trauma, degenerative changes, metabolic disturbances, or other causes. Arthritis occurs in various forms, such as the arthritis associated with infections, osteoarthritis, or rheumatoid arthritis. Many forms of vasculitis can also be associated with arthritis.
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Sicca syndrome
See 'Sjogren's syndrome'.
Singling-Larsen-Johanssen syndrome
Pain at the insertion of the patellar tendon to the patella. Occurs in adolescence and calcification may be seen here on X-ray.
SLE
See 'Systemic lupus erythematosus'.
Spondylarthritis
Defect in pars interarticularis of vertebra.
Spondylolisthesis
Malalignment of vertebrae due to spondylolysis or degenerative change which allows one vertebra to slip forward on top of another.
Still's Disease
Sudeck's Atrophy
See 'Algodystrophy'.
Sweet's syndrome
Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis. A red tender rash with leucocytosis and fever.
Syndesmophyte
Fine bony projection (usually vertically orientated, unlike osteophytes) from the margin of a vertebra. Characteristic of spondylarthropathy such as ankylosing spondylitis.
Synovectomy
Procedure to remove or obliterate synovium as a means of reducing or eliminating joint inflammation. May be surgical or medical (see also 'Yttrium').
Synovial fluid
Joint fluid.
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Chronic
Ongoing or recurring. Chronic medical conditions include diabetes, epilepsy, and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Arthritis
Inflammation of a joint, usually accompanied by pain, swelling, and stiffness, and resulting from infection, trauma, degenerative changes, metabolic disturbances, or other causes. Arthritis occurs in various forms, such as the arthritis associated with infections, osteoarthritis, or rheumatoid arthritis. Many forms of vasculitis can also be associated with arthritis.
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Sicca syndrome
See 'Sjogren's syndrome'.
Singling-Larsen-Johanssen syndrome
Pain at the insertion of the patellar tendon to the patella. Occurs in adolescence and calcification may be seen here on X-ray.
SLE
See 'Systemic lupus erythematosus'.
Spondylarthritis
Defect in pars interarticularis of vertebra.
Spondylolisthesis
Malalignment of vertebrae due to spondylolysis or degenerative change which allows one vertebra to slip forward on top of another.
Still's Disease
Sudeck's Atrophy
See 'Algodystrophy'.
Sweet's syndrome
Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis. A red tender rash with leucocytosis and fever.
Syndesmophyte
Fine bony projection (usually vertically orientated, unlike osteophytes) from the margin of a vertebra. Characteristic of spondylarthropathy such as ankylosing spondylitis.
Synovectomy
Procedure to remove or obliterate synovium as a means of reducing or eliminating joint inflammation. May be surgical or medical (see also 'Yttrium').
Synovial fluid
Joint fluid.
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