Influence of methotrexate on radiographic progression in rheumatoid arthritis: A sixty-month prospective study

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 263-267

  Drosos, A A ^a,c   Tsifetaki, N ^a   Tsiakou, E K ^a   Timpanidou, M ^a   Tsampoulas, C ^a   Tatsis, C K ^a   Kotoulas, K ^a   Moutsopoulos, H M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

D penicillamine; Methotrexate; Radiographic progression; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE; PENICILLAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; WRIST RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLAMINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WRIST;

EID: 0031004375     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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