Edited by Janet E. McDonagh and Patience H. White. 439 pp., illustrated. New York, Informa Healthcare, 2008. $229.95. ISBN 978-0-8493-9890-2.
Pediatric rheumatology has a quality that sets it apart fromother pediatric subspecialties. In some respects, this qualityis determined by the limited number of board-certified practitionerscaring for an ever-growing number of children with autoimmunedisease, musculoskeletal dysfunction, and difficult-to-interpretlaboratory data. As diagnostic studies, medical interventions,and even the nature of youth itself have become more complex,it is important to acknowledge that adolescence is not justan age but a stage. Half the world's population is younger than25 years of age, and the prevalence of musculoskeletal diseasealone accounts for more than one fifth of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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