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Concise reports

• Imaging of tophaceous gout: computed tomography provides specific images compared with magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasonography (1 January, 2002)

  J C Gerster, M Landry, L Dufresne, J Y Meuwly
• High resolution ultrasound detects a decrease in pannus vascularisation of small finger joints in patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving treatment with soluble tumour necrosis factor α receptor (etanercept) (1 January, 2002)

  M Hau, C Kneitz, H-P Tony, M Keberle, R Jahns, M Jenett
• Intravenous immunoglobulins control scleromyxoedema (1 January, 2002)

  A Righi, F Schiavon, S Jablonska, A Doria, M Blasczyk, R Rondinone, S Todesco, M Matucci Cerinic
• Communication between Dutch rheumatologists and occupational physicians in the occupational rehabilitation of patients with rheumatic diseases (1 January, 2002)

  P D M de Buck, R J van Amstel, P C Buijs, J H W Maasen, F J H van Dijk, J M W Hazes, T P M Vliet Vlieland
• Can intervention modify adverse lifestyle variables in a rheumatoid population? Results of a pilot study (1 January, 2002)

  M-M Gordon, E A Thomson, R Madhok, H A Capell
• Autoimmune thyroid disease in systemic lupus erythematosus (1 January, 2002)

  D Pyne, D A Isenberg
• Usefulness of bone densitometry in postmenopausal women with clinically diagnosed vertebral fractures (1 January, 2002)

  J M Nolla, C Gómez-Vaquero, J Fiter, D Roig Vilaseca, L Mateo, A Rozadilla, M Romera, J Valverde, D Roig Escofet
• Serum nitrate and nitrite levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and osteoarthritis (1 January, 2002)

  Y Ersoy, E Özerol, Ö Baysal, I Temel, R S MacWalter, Ü Meral, Z E Altay
• Acute phase response in familial Mediterranean fever (1 January, 2002)

  C Korkmaz, H Özdogan, Ö Kasapçopur, H Yazici
• Rheumatological complications associated with the use of indinavir and other protease inhibitors (1 January, 2002)

  E Florence, W Schrooten, K Verdonck, C Dreezen, R Colebunders