关节炎可因麻疹病毒、流行性腮腺炎病毒、风疹病毒、肝炎病毒和ECHO病毒等病毒性疾病所引起,但水痘病毒引起关节炎却很少见。对此,曾有人用滑液做过病毒培养、免疫荧光与PCR检测。病毒培养诊断意义不大,PCR技术较为敏感,培养阴性者,PCR亦可阳性。本文报道了8例因水痘病毒引起的无菌性关节炎儿重病例,男4例,女4例,年龄在18个月～6岁之间。此8例关节炎都发生于水痘发病前数小时至发病后10～ Arthritis can be caused by viral diseases such as measles virus, mumps virus, rubella virus, hepatitis virus and ECHO virus, but it is rare for chickenpox virus to cause arthritis. In this regard, there have been done with virus fluid culture, immunofluorescence and PCR detection. Viral diagnosis of little significance, PCR technology is more sensitive, culture negative, PCR can also be positive. In this paper, 8 cases of aseptic arthritis caused by chickenpox virus were reported. There were 4 males and 4 females, ranging in age from 18 months to 6 years old. The 8 cases of arthritis occurred in the chickenpox hours before onset to 10 ~ after onset