HYPERMOBILITY SYNDROME MIMICKING JUVENILE CHRONIC ARTHRITIES

It has been estimated that hypermobility of joints occurringin subjects not believed to be suffering from clinicaly identifiableheritable disorders of connective tissue is present in approximately10% of bealthy subjects (1,2). It seems highly likely that inthe majority of hypermobile subjects symptoms are not experienced.IT is now well established that hypermobility may present ina rheumatology clinic with articular complaints which includerecurrent joint efusions, predisposition to the effects of trauma,backache, recurrent dislocation of joints, and probably prematureosteoarthrosis(3). The purpose of this comunication is to describe an unusual presentationof hypermobility in which an adolescent presented with a chronicarthropathy of her fingers which mimicked juvenile chronic arthritis