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Extended reports

• Detection of maternal-fetal microchimerism in the inflammatory lesions of patients with Sjögren's syndrome (1 December, 2002)

  M Kuroki, A Okayama, S Nakamura, T Sasaki, K Murai, R Shiba, M Shinohara, H Tsubouchi
• Receptor activator NF-κB ligand (RANKL) expression in synovial tissue from patients with rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathy, osteoarthritis, and from normal patients: semiquantitative and quantitative analysis (1 December, 2002)

  T N Crotti, M D Smith, H Weedon, M J Ahern, D M Findlay, M Kraan, P P Tak, D R Haynes
• Ten year outcome in a cohort of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: health status, disease process, and damage (1 December, 2002)

  E Lindqvist, T Saxne, P Geborek, K Eberhardt
• Purine enzymes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with methotrexate (1 December, 2002)

  A E van Ede, R F J M Laan, R A De Abreu, A B J Stegeman, L B A van de Putte
• Definition of risk factors for death, end stage renal disease, and thromboembolic events in a monocentric cohort of 338 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (1 December, 2002)

  K Manger, B Manger, R Repp, M Geisselbrecht, A Geiger, A Pfahlberg, T Harrer, J R Kalden
• Chronic widespread pain in the population: a seven year follow up study (1 December, 2002)

  A C Papageorgiou, A J Silman, G J Macfarlane
• Rhythmic variations in pain, stiffness, and manual dexterity in hand osteoarthritis (1 December, 2002)

  N Bellamy, R B Sothern, J Campbell, W W Buchanan
• Investigation of chromosome 2q in osteoarthritis of the hand: no significant linkage in a Tasmanian population (1 December, 2002)

  J Stankovich, M M Sale, H M Cooley, M Bahlo, A Reilly, J L Dickinson, G Jones
• Clinical decision rules in rheumatoid arthritis: do they identify patients at high risk for osteoporosis? Testing clinical criteria in a population based cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis recruited from the Oslo Rheumatoid Arthritis Register (1 December, 2002)

  G Haugeberg, R E Ørstavik, T Uhlig, J A Falch, J I Halse, T K Kvien
• Diagnostic associations in a large and consecutively identified population positive for anti-SSA and/or anti-SSB: the range of associated diseases differs according to the detailed serotype (1 December, 2002)

  I Peene, L Meheus, E M Veys, F De Keyser
• Loss of transforming growth factor counteraction on interleukin 1 mediated effects in cartilage of old mice (1 December, 2002)

  A Scharstuhl, H M van Beuningen, E L Vitters, P M van der Kraan, W B van den Berg