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Extended reports

• Correlation between radiographically diagnosed osteophytes and magnetic resonance detected cartilage defects in the patellofemoral joint (1 July, 1998)

  T Boegård, O Rudling, I F Petersson, K Jonsson
• Correlation between radiographically diagnosed osteophytes and magnetic resonance detected cartilage defects in the tibiofemoral joint (1 July, 1998)

  Torsten Boegård, Olof Rudling, Ingemar F Petersson, Kjell Jonsson
• Local removal of phagocytic synovial lining cells by clodronate-liposomes decreases cartilage destruction during collagen type II arthritis (1 July, 1998)

  P L E M Van Lent, A E M Holthuysen, N Van Rooijen, L B A Van De Putte, W B Van Den Berg
• Effects of methotrexate on normal articular cartilage in vitro and in vivo (1 July, 1998)

  Jasper Neidel, Laurentius Sova, Benn Schroers, Frank Sintermann, Oliver Manzke, Heribert Bohlen
• Parvovirus B19 infection, hepatitis C virus infection, and mixed cryoglobulinaemia (1 July, 1998)

  Patrice Cacoub, Narjis Boukli, Pierre Hausfater, Antoine Garbarg-Chenon, Pascale Ghillani, Vincent Thibault, Lucile Musset, Jean Marie Huraux, Jean-Charles Piette
• Serum interleukin 12 concentration in juvenile chronic arthritis (1 July, 1998)

  M Gattorno, P Picco, S Vignola, F Stalla, A Buoncompagni, V Pistoia
• Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament in three geographically and genetically different populations of ankylosing spondylitis and other spondyloarthropathies (1 July, 1998)

  Cesar Ramos-Remus, Anthony S Russell, Amparo Gomez-Vargas, Abel Hernandez-Chavez, Walter P Maksymowych, Jorge I Gamez-Nava, Laura Gonzalez-Lopez, Alicia García-Hernández, Esther Meoño-Morales, Ruben Burgos-Vargas, Maria E Suarez-Almazor