Erosion healing in rheumatoid arthritis after anakinra treatment

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 671-673

  Rau, R ^a   Sander, O ^a   Wassenberg, S ^a  

^a Evangelisches Fach krankenhaus Ratingen   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GOLD; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EDEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOREFOOT; HAND; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; REMISSION; RETROSTERNAL PAIN; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYMPTOM; WRIST;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; FOOT JOINTS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST PROTEIN; MIDDLE AGED; SIALOGLYCOPROTEINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037870458     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.62.7.671     Document Type: Article

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