Wilson’s Disease Masquerading as Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in an Adolescent

Wilson’s disease (WD) is a rare autosomal-recessive inborn error of copper metabolism characterized by the toxic accumulation of copper in liver, brain, cornea, and other tissues. It has a variable clinical presentation. Musculoskeletal presentations are very unusual. We report a 17-year-old male wh...

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Autores principales: Goyal, Rajeev, Chacham, Swathi, Goyal, Jagdish P, Chegondi, Madhuradhar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417298/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32789096
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9160
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author Goyal, Rajeev
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description Wilson’s disease (WD) is a rare autosomal-recessive inborn error of copper metabolism characterized by the toxic accumulation of copper in liver, brain, cornea, and other tissues. It has a variable clinical presentation. Musculoskeletal presentations are very unusual. We report a 17-year-old male who presented to us with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), which later proved to be a case of WD.
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spelling pubmed-74172982020-08-11 Wilson’s Disease Masquerading as Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in an Adolescent Goyal, Rajeev Chacham, Swathi Goyal, Jagdish P Chegondi, Madhuradhar Cureus Pediatrics Wilson’s disease (WD) is a rare autosomal-recessive inborn error of copper metabolism characterized by the toxic accumulation of copper in liver, brain, cornea, and other tissues. It has a variable clinical presentation. Musculoskeletal presentations are very unusual. We report a 17-year-old male who presented to us with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), which later proved to be a case of WD. Cureus 2020-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7417298/ /pubmed/32789096 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9160 Text en Copyright © 2020, Goyal et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Wilson’s Disease Masquerading as Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in an Adolescent
title Wilson’s Disease Masquerading as Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in an Adolescent
title_full Wilson’s Disease Masquerading as Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in an Adolescent
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title_full_unstemmed Wilson’s Disease Masquerading as Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in an Adolescent
title_short Wilson’s Disease Masquerading as Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in an Adolescent
title_sort wilson’s disease masquerading as juvenile idiopathic arthritis in an adolescent
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417298/
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