Antibiotic treatment and long term prognosis of reactive arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 655-658

  Laasila, K ^a   Laasonen, L ^a   Leirisalo Repo, M ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LYMECYCLINE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; SACROILIAC JOINT; SACROILIITIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT FAILURE; WRIST;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, REACTIVE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMECYCLINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0038208152     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.62.7.655     Document Type: Article

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