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In this article, we report a unique presentation of renal failure in a 13-year-old patient who was diagnosed with BS. Interestingly, the patient had only displayed one of the three classical signs, i.e., arthritis. In our case, she had never had any symptoms of the skin or ocular involvement and had just developed arthritis. As a result, the patient was initially misdiagnosed as a case of Juvenile Idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Hence, it's crucial to consider other possible diagnoses when JIA cannot fully explain the patient's presentation and whenever there's an atypical response to treatment. 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