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oligoarticular arthritis
Arthritis involving a few joints.
Etiology:
1) reactive arthritis (may be axial)
- Reiter's syndrome (may be axial)
2) psoriatic arthritis (may be axial)
3) ankylosing spondylitis (may be axial)
4) enteropathic arthritis
- inflammatory bowel disease
5) infectious arthritis
- Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi)
- rheumatic fever
- endocarditis
6) AIDS
7) sarcoidosis (also polyarticular)
8) crystalline arthritis (generally monoarticular)
9) osteoarthritis (also monoarticular)
10) amyloidosis (shoulders)
Clinical manifestations:
- see arthritis
Laboratory:
- see arthritis
Radiology:
- see arthritis
Management:
- see arthritis
General
arthritis
References
- Geriatric Review Syllabus, 8th edition (GRS8)
Durso SC and Sullivan GN (eds)
American Geriatrics Society, 2013