The Rheumatoid Thumb

Hand Clinics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 307-314

  Chacko, Aron T ^a   Rozental, Tamara D ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; ETANERCEPT; GOLD; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENICILLAMINE; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RITUXIMAB; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ARTHRODESIS; ARTHROPLASTY; CAPSULODESIS; CARPOMETACARPAL JOINT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EXTENSOR POLLICIS LONGUS MUSCLE TENDON; HUMAN; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; JOINT SURGERY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPLINTING; SYNOVECTOMY; TENDON; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENDON RUPTURE; THUMB; THUMB MALFORMATION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTHRODESIS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT; HAND JOINTS; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; RUPTURE; SPLINTS; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; TENDON INJURIES; THUMB;

EID: 48149091625     PISSN: 07490712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hcl.2008.03.005     Document Type: Review

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