Radiographic joint space width in the fingers of patients with rheumatoid arthritis of less than one year's duration

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1440-1443

  Goligher, Ewan C ^a   Duryea, Jeffrey ^a   Liang, Matthew H ^a   Wolfe, Frederick ^b   Finckh, Axel ^a,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL DATA BANK FOR RHEUMATIC DISEASES   (United States)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JOINT CAVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646478129     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.21829     Document Type: Article

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