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Scoring hypoechogenic areas in one parotid and one submandibular gland increases feasibility of ultrasound in primary Sjögren’s syndrome

Correspondence to Professor Hendrika Bootsma, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713 GZ, The Netherlands; h.bootsma{at}umcg.nl ...
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AB0727 Increased Rates of Hypertension in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Compared To Psoriasis Alone: Results from The UK Biobank

1 Arthritis Research UK Centre for Genetics and Genomics, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre 2 Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Manchester ...
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Anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody (rituximab) as an adjunct in the treatment of giant cell arteritis

1 Department of Rheumatology, University College London Hospitals, Arthur Stanley House, 40-50 Tottenham Street, London W1T 4NJ, UK 2 Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London Hospitals ...
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Neutrophil CD64 expression: distinguishing acute inflammatory autoimmune disease from systemic infections

1 Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases – OP09, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97201, USA 2 Department of Pathology, Oregon Health and Science ...
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Comparison of the accuracy of steroid placement with clinical outcome in patients with shoulder symptoms

a St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland: Department of Rheumatology , b Department of Radiology Dr O FitzGerald, Department of Rheumatology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4, Republic of ...
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Incidence of severe knee and hip osteoarthritis in relation to different measures of body mass: a population-based prospective cohort study

Objective: To determine in a prospective population-based cohort study relationships between different measures of body mass and the incidence of severe knee and hip osteoarthritis defined as ...