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: Arch Dis Child 1995 Apr;72(4):348-349 |
Arthritis after mumps and measles
vaccination.
Nussinovitch M, Harel L, Varsano I.
Department of Pediatrics C, Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach,
Tikvah.
Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine carries a risk of joint symptoms
particularly in children under 5 years. A boy who presented with an inflamed
knee after measles and mumps vaccination is reported; synovial fluid aspirated
from the joint contained 4.3 x 10(9)/l leucocytes. It is thought that the mumps
component is the aetiological cause of acute monoarthritis.
PMID: 7763072 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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