Radiographic healing with sustained clinical remission in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis receiving methotrexate monotherapy

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2804-2807

  Wassenberg, Siegfried ^a,b   Rau, Rolf ^a  

^a Evangelisches Fach krankenhaus Ratingen   (Germany)

^b Evangelisches Fachkrankenhaus ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; GOLD; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HEALING; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; JOINT STIFFNESS; MONOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST RADIOGRAPHY;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BONE REGENERATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION INDUCTION; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 0036822805     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.10568     Document Type: Article

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