title: Three Cases of Spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia Tarda in One Korean Family.
abstract: Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia (SED) tarda is an inherited skeletal arthropathy. Because SED tarda involves the joints and resemble the clinical findings of chronic arthropathies, this disease is frequently misdiagnosed as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). We report here on three patients (father and his two daughters) in one family with SED tarda. All patients had back pain and polyarthralgia. Their radiographs revealed typical changes for SED tarda including platyspondyly and dysplastic bone changes. This rare disease has major clinical importance in that it is similar with JIA or rheumatoid arthritis.
authors.affiliation: Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea.
authors.forename: Sang Wan
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.affiliation: Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea.
authors.forename: Eun Ha
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.affiliation: Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea.|Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Yun Jong
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea.
authors.forename: You Jung
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Ha
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.|Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, and College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. ysong@snu.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Yeong Wook
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Song
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018771:Arthralgia / Q000150:complications; D001416:Back Pain / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010009:Osteochondrodysplasias / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D010375:Pedigree; D056910:Republic of Korea; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda; platyspondyly; progressive arthropathy