Juvenile disease
5.5 cases have been mistaken tuberculosis of bone joints, 4 cases have been mistaken juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), 1 case has been mistaken growth pain, 1 case has been mistaken myositis, 1 case has been mistakenLegg-Calve-Perthes disease, and 13 cases diagnosis were not clear. The rate of early misdiagnosis is 83.33%.
6.Methods Measurements of serum IL -1β,IL- 12 and TGF- β1 levels were carried out in 17 children with acute stage Kawasaki disease, 14 children with active juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and 17 children with acute rheumatic fever respectively before and after medication treatment from 2002 to 2004 in our hospital, the laboratory data collected were compared with those collected from 20 normal children.

