Anti-rheumatic drugs and joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis

QJM

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1985, Pages 49-59

  Scott, D L ^a   Dawes, P T ^b   Fowler, P D ^b   Grindulis, K A ^a   Shadforth, M ^b   Bacon, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Staffordshire Rheumatology Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; AURANOFIN; AUROTHIOMALATE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHLOROQUINE; DAPSONE; DICLOFENAC; FLURBIPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; PENICILLAMINE; PLACEBO;

BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DRUG THERAPY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HUMAN; JOINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; THERAPY;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AURANOFIN; AUROTHIOGLUCOSE; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; CHLOROQUINE; DAPSONE; FEMALE; GOLD SODIUM THIOMALATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLAMINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0021917139     PISSN: 14602725     EISSN: 14602393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.qjmed.a067828     Document Type: Article

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