Arthritis of the large joints - in particular, the knee - at first presentation is predictive for a high level of radiological destruction of the small joints in rheumatoid arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 646-650

  Linn Rasker, S P ^a   Van Der Helm Van Mil, A H M ^a   Breedveld, F C ^a   Huizinga, T W J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOT RADIOGRAPHY; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JOINT DESTRUCTION; KNEE ARTHRITIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOANTIBODIES; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; ELBOW JOINT; FEMALE; FOOT JOINTS; HAND JOINTS; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PROGNOSIS; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOULDER JOINT;

EID: 34248167689     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2006.066704     Document Type: Article

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