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Extended reports

• Growth in infancy and bone mass in later life (1 January, 1997)

  Cyrus Cooper, Caroline Fall, Peter Egger, Richard Hobbs, Richard Eastell, David Barker
• Gout is on the increase in New Zealand (1 January, 1997)

  Patrick Klemp, Shelley A Stansfield, Benjamin Castle, M Clare Robertson
• The timing of glucocorticoid administration in rheumatoid arthritis (1 January, 1997)

  Nils Gunnar Arvidson, Björn Gudbjörnsson, Anders Larsson, Roger Hällgren
• Limited effect of sulphasalazine treatment in reactive arthritis. A randomised double blind placebo controlled trial (1 January, 1997)

  Charlotte Egsmose, Troels Mørk Hansen, Lis Smedegaard Andersen, Jannie Marion Beier, Lene Christensen, Leif Ejstrup, Niels Daugaard Peters, Désirée M F M van der Heijde
• Increase of HLA-DRB1*0408 and -DQB1*0301 in HLA-B27 positive reactive arthritis (1 January, 1997)

  Juha Tuokko, Helena Reijonen, Jorma Ilonen, Kaisa Anttila, Simo Nikkari, Timo Möttönen, Urpo Yli-Kerttula, Auli Toivanen
• ICAM-1, E-selectin, and TNF α expression in labial salivary glands of patients with rheumatoid vasculitis (1 January, 1997)

  René Marc Flipo, Thierry Cardon, Marie Christine Copin, Marie Vandecandelaere, Bernard Duquesnoy, Anne Janin
• Increased expression of integrins on fibroblast-like synoviocytes from rheumatoid arthritis in vitro correlates with enhanced binding to extracellular matrix proteins (1 January, 1997)

  N Rinaldi, M Schwarz-Eywill, D Weis, P Leppelmann-Jansen, M Lukoschek, U Keilholz, T F E Barth
• Spondylodiscitis in SAPHO syndrome. A series of eight cases (1 January, 1997)

  E Toussirot, J L Dupond, D Wendling
• Comparison of the accuracy of steroid placement with clinical outcome in patients with shoulder symptoms (1 January, 1997)

  J A Eustace, D P Brophy, R P Gibney, B Bresnihan, O FitzGerald