Abstract
In the Anglo-American literature, the term “Still’s disease”, based on the observations of ○Cornil (1864) and Still (1897) is generally employed to cover the juvenile forms of rheumatoid arthritis, defined by Ansell and Bywaters (1959). German paediatricians, on the other hand, particularly Storber and Kölle, regard Still’s disease as a separate syndrome. Kölle uses the following characteristics for this distinction:
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High fever at the commencement of illness.
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Enlargement of lymph nodes, spleen and liver.
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Myocarditis and pericarditis.
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High leucocyte count.
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Erythema multiforme in about 70% of patients.
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Fassbender, H.G. (1975). Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and Still’s Disease. In: Pathology of Rheumatic Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09221-7_6
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