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Four patients from a Muslim family with an inherited skeletal dyspiasia are presented. It is more crippling than usual form of spondyloepi-physial dyspiasia tarda and the onset is very early in the life i.e. at 4 years. The disorder is progressive, crippling and has striking clinical resemblance to juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. The striking X-ray appearance is of platyspondyly and irregularities of capital femoral epiphysis. There is absence of any synovitis.
Two of these patients are females aged 8 years and 18 years. The third patient is their cousin brother aged 6 years and their uncle who is of>50 years old and crippled.
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Archik, S.G., Kamat, R.D. Progressive pseudorheumatoid chandrodysplasia simulating juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Indian J Pediatr 57, 785–788 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02722278
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02722278