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Neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease is a rare disorder first described by Lorber in 1973. An additional 29 cases have been recorded. Two patients are described here, one with a 17 year follow-up. The typical features are a rash, fever, adenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, and a severe, deforming arthropathy predominantly affecting large joints. The most striking feature is the onset in the neonatal period. Other associated features include inflammation, chronic meningitis, anemia, and persistent leukocytosis. Most, if not all, patients develop bizarre epiphyseal radiographic finding that are virtually pathognomonic. This disease is distinct from Still disease.
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Torbiak, R.P., Dent, P.B. & Cockshott, W.P. NOMID — a neonatal syndrome of multisystem inflammation. Skeletal Radiol 18, 359–364 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00361425
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