Decrease in orthopaedic operations, including total joint replacements, in patients with rheumatoid arthritis between 2001 and 2007: Data from Japanese outpatients in a single institute-based large observational cohort (IORRA)

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 312-313

  Momohara, S ^a   Inoue, E ^a   Ikari, K ^a   Kawamura, K ^a   Tsukahara, S ^a   Iwamoto, T ^a   Hara, M ^a   Taniguchi, A ^a   Yamanaka, H ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE;

COHORT ANALYSIS; DENMARK; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE 28; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPANESE; JOINT PROSTHESIS; LETTER; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SWEDEN; SYNOVECTOMY; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES;

EID: 73449117199     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2009.107599     Document Type: Letter

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