New advances in juvenile idiopathic arthritis
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New advances in juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) comprises a group of heterogeneous disorders of chronic arthritis in childhood with no apparent etiology. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is the most common pediatric rheumatic disease and is associated with significant long-term morbidity and mortality. There have been major advances in recent years in our understanding of the pathogenesis of JIA, the definiti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biomedical Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2319-4170
DOI: 10.4103/2319-4170.106171