How to assess patients with rheumatoid arthritis and concomitant fibromyalgia?

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 9-11

  Mäkinen, Heidi ^a,c   Hannonen, Pekka ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b JYVÄSKYLÄ CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

DISABILITY; EDITORIAL; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; JOINT SWELLING; MORNING STIFFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COMORBIDITY; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS;

EID: 58149487532     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.081100     Document Type: Editorial

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