Reiter´s syndrome is a clinical triad of arthritis, urethritis and conjunctivitis, but the characteristic mucocutaneous lesions occur frequently enough to be included in this syndrome.
This applies to the initial stage of the disease, in which the arthritis usually, but by no means invariably, comes triad, i.e. after the urethritis and- conjunctivitis have made their apperance.
In most instances the arthutisis is of subacute onset, reaching its full intensity within a few weeks. Some 50% of the patients suffe> from recurlences of the arthritis.
The chronic progressive polyarthritis cccuring in Reiter´s syndrome has severe functional and anatomical repercussions.
Here we report a case of Reiter´s syndrome in a 14 year old middle school boy.
He had classical characteristic triad of arthritis, nonspecific urethritis and conjunctivitis. He_had pyuria in first fe~vdays after crset and the arthritis of acute onset, retching its full intensity within two weeks and then followed by conjunctivits.
A review of literature was included.
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