Progress toward the cure of rheumatoid arthritis? The best study

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3326-3332

  Weisman, Michael H ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; ETANERCEPT; GLUCOCORTICOID; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ANTIBODY;

ADD ON THERAPY; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; OSTEOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SHORT COURSE THERAPY;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 27744540166     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.21503     Document Type: Editorial

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