Osteoarthritis: What therapies for this disease of many causes?

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 11-17

  Morehead, Kerstin ^a   Sack, Kenneth E ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CHONDROITIN SULFATE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOSAMINE; HYALURONIC ACID; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; SALICYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

CARTILAGE CELL; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFUSION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSTIPATION; DUODENUM ULCER; FALLING; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; JOINT FUNCTION; LIVER TOXICITY; MECHANICAL STRESS; NEPHROTOXICITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDER; PROTEINURIA; RASH; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH ULCER; THROMBOCYTE DYSFUNCTION;

EID: 0242608373     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2003.11.1521     Document Type: Conference Paper

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