Effect of intra-articular corticosteroid injections and inflammation on periarticular and generalised bone loss in early rheumatoid arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 184-187

  Haugeberg, Glenn ^a   Morton, Sarah ^b   Emery, Paul ^c   Conaghan, Philip G ^c  

^a Sørlandet Hospital   (Norway)

^b Balmore Park Surgery   (United Kingdom)

^c Chapel Allerton Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE ATROPHY; BONE DENSITOMETRY; BONE DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BONE DENSITY; BONE DISEASES, METABOLIC; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650656379     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2009.128124     Document Type: Article

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