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Comparison of the accuracy of steroid placement with clinical outcome in patients with shoulder symptoms

a St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland: Department of Rheumatology , b Department of Radiology Dr O FitzGerald, Department of Rheumatology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4, Republic of ...
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Primary Sjögren's syndrome and malignancy risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Department of Laboratory Diagnostics, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China Correspondence to Dr Yang Zaixing and Professor Renqian Zhong, Department of Laboratory ...
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Diagnosis of gout in patients with asymptomatic hyperuricaemia: a pilot ultrasound study

1 Division of Rheumatology, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain 2 Division of Internal Medicine, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain 3 Division of Clinical Biochemistry, La Paz University ...
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The global burden of occupationally related low back pain: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study

1 Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, ...
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European Scleroderma Study Group to define disease activity criteria for systemic sclerosis. III. Assessment of the construct validity of the preliminary activity criteria

Objective: To further assess the construct validity of the three European Scleroderma Study Group (EScSG) preliminary activity indices for systemic sclerosis (SSc): for SSc as a whole, for diffuse SSc ...
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Studies with pain rating scales.

Good correlation has been shown between pain scores derived from 4 different rating scales. The correlation was maintained when presentation of the scales was separated by a series of questions and by ...
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Incidence of autoimmune diseases in a nationwide HIV/AIDS patient cohort in Taiwan, 2000–2012

9 Center for Infectious Disease and Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 10 School of Medicine, Graduate Institute of Medicine, Sepsis Research Center, College of Medicine, ...
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Characterisation of size and direction of osteophyte in knee osteoarthritis: a radiographic study

Objectives: To examine the size and direction of osteophyte in knee osteoarthritis (OA) and to determine associations between osteophyte size and other radiographic features. Methods: Knee radiographs ...
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The 10-year follow-up data of the Euro-Lupus Nephritis Trial comparing low-dose and high-dose intravenous cyclophosphamide

Pathology Department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgium Correspondence to Professor F A Houssiau, Rheumatology Department, Cliniques ...
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Takayasu arteritis is characterised by disturbances of B cell homeostasis and responds to B cell depletion therapy with rituximab

3 Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 4 Department of Radiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 5 Department of Nuclear ...
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Smoking is a risk factor for anti-CCP antibodies only in rheumatoid arthritis patients who carry HLA-DRB1 shared epitope alleles

1 Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands 2 Departments of Rheumatology and Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Centre 3 Department of Immunohaematology ...
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The fatty Romanus lesion: a non-inflammatory spinal MRI lesion specific for axial spondyloarthropathy

Background Fatty changes at vertebral corners have been reported on MRI in ankylosing spondylitis but the distribution or specificity of these lesions to early axial spondyloarthropathy (axial-SpA) ...