Cover; Contents; Editorial advisers; Symbols and abbreviations; Part I: The presentation of rheumatic disease; 1 Evaluating musculoskeletal symptoms; Introduction; Localization of pain and pain patterns; Changes in pain on examination; The assessment of pain in young children; Stiffness, swelling, and constitutional symptoms; Gait, arms, legs, spine-the GALS screen; 2 Regional musculoskeletal conditions: making a working diagnosis; Introduction; Neck pain; Shoulder pain; Pain around the elbow; Wrist pain; Symptoms in the hand; Upper limb peripheral nerve lesions; Thoracic back and chest pain.

Low back pain and disorders in adultsSpinal disorders in children and adolescents; Pelvic, groin, and thigh pain; Knee pain; Lower leg and foot disorders (adults); Child and adolescent foot disorders; 3 Patterns of disease presentation: making a working diagnosis; Mono-articular pain in adults; Oligo-articular pain in adults; Oligo-articular and pauci-articular pain in children and adolescents; Widespread pain in adults; Widespread pain in children and adolescents; 4 The spectrum of non-musculoskeletal disorders in rheumatic disease; Skin disorders and rheumatic disease.

Skin vasculitis in adultsSkin vasculitis in children and adolescents; Cardiac manifestations; Pulmonary manifestations; Renal manifestations; Endocrine manifestations; Gut and hepatobiliary manifestations; Malignancy; Neurological disorders; Part II: The clinical features and management of rheumatic diseases; 5 Rheumatoid arthritis; Disease criteria and epidemiology for use in clinical trials; Incidence, prevalence, and morbidity; The clinical features of rheumatoid arthritis; Organ disease in rheumatoid arthritis; The evaluation and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

Polyarticular arthritis in children with a positive rheumatoid factorStill's disease; 6 Osteoarthritis; Introduction; Clinical features of osteoarthritis; The investigation of osteoarthritis; The management of osteoarthritis; 7 The crystal arthropathies; Gout and hyperuricaemia; Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate disease; Basic calcium phosphate associated disease; Calcium oxalate arthritis; 8 The spondyloarthropathies; Introduction; Diagnostic criteria and clinical subsets; Ankylosing spondylitis; Psoriatic arthritis; Reactive arthropathy; Enteric arthropathy; Spondyloarthropathies in childhood.

9 Juvenile idiopathic arthritisIntroduction; Oligoarthritis; Systemic arthritis; Rheumatoid factor negative polyarthritis in childhood; Chronic, infantile, neurological, cutaneous, and articular syndrome; 10 Systemic lupus erythematosus; Introduction; The clinical features of systemic lupus erythematosus; Antiphospholipid (antibody) syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus; Pregnancy and systemic lupus erythematosus; Diagnosis and investigation of systemic lupus erythematosus; Drug-induced lupus erythematosus; The treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus.