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Extended reports

• Pyogenic, tuberculous, and brucellar vertebral osteomyelitis: a descriptive and comparative study of 219 cases (1 December, 1997)

  J D Colmenero, M E Jiménez-Mejías, F J Sánchez-Lora, J M Reguera, J Palomino-Nicás, F Martos, J García de las Heras, J Pachón
• Initiation and perpetuation of rat adjuvant arthritis is inhibited by the anti-CD2 monoclonal antibody (mAb) OX34 (1 December, 1997)

  Jörg C Hoffmann, Claudia Herklotz, Henning Zeidler, Bettina Bayer, Herbert Rosenthal, Jürgen Westermann
• Survival prognostic factors and markers of morbidity in Spanish patients with systemic sclerosis (1 December, 1997)

  Carmen-Pilar Simeon, Luis Armadans, Vicent Fonollosa, Miquel Vilardell, Jaume Candell, Carles Tolosa, Fermín Mearin, María José Rodrigo, Roser Solans, Joan Lima, Gabriel Sampol
• Differential expression and functional behaviour of the αv and β3 integrin subunits in cytokine stimulated fibroblast-like cells derived from synovial tissue of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis in vitro (1 December, 1997)

  Nadia Rinaldi, D Weis, B Brado, M Schwarz-Eywill, M Lukoschek, A Pezzutto, U Keilholz, T F E Barth
• Neuropeptides of the autonomic nervous system in Sjögren’s syndrome (1 December, 1997)

  Nina Santavirta, Yrjö T Konttinen, Jyrki Törnwall, Margaretha Segerberg, Seppo Santavirta, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Hjördis Björvell