title: Paediatric rheumatic disease: Classification warfare.
abstract: In the absence of definitive diagnostic tests, several schemes for the classification of paediatric vasculitis have been devised and periodically updated, but are these revisions necessary and useful?
authors.affiliation: Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. robert.sundel@childrens.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Robert P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Sundel
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000592:standards; D012219:Rheumatology / Q000592:standards; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000145:classification*