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Extended reports

• Estimating the burden of musculoskeletal disorders in the community: the comparative prevalence of symptoms at different anatomical sites, and the relation to social deprivation (1 November, 1998)

  Michelle Urwin, Deborah Symmons, Timothy Allison, Thérèse Brammah, Helen Busby, Morven Roxby, Alicia Simmons, Gareth Williams
• Improving musculoskeletal clinical skills teaching. A regionwide audit and intervention study (1 November, 1998)

  Lesley Kay, David Walker
• IgE and non-IgE mediated allergic disorders in systemic lupus erythematosus (1 November, 1998)

  S Morton, B Palmer, K Muir, R J Powell
• Synovial mast cell responses during clinical improvement in early rheumatoid arthritis (1 November, 1998)

  Ian Gotis-Graham, Malcolm D Smith, Angela Parker, H Patrick McNeil
• Influence of non-inherited maternal HLA-DR antigens on susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (1 November, 1998)

  I E van der Horst-Bruinsma, J M W Hazes, G M Th Schreuder, T R D J Radstake, P Barrera, L B A van de Putte, D Mustamu, D van Schaardenburg, F C Breedveld, R R P de Vries
• The faux profil (oblique view) of the hip in the standing position. Contribution to the evaluation of osteoarthritis of the adult hip (1 November, 1998)

  Michel G Lequesne, Jean-Denis Laredo
• Mortality and causes of death in a Swedish series of systemic sclerosis patients (1 November, 1998)

  Roger Hesselstrand, Agneta Scheja, Anita Åkesson
• Treatment of staphylococcal septic arthritis in rabbits by systemic antibiotics and intra-articular corticosteroids (1 November, 1998)

  A J Wysenbeek, J Volchek, M Amit, D Robinson, I Boldur, Z Nevo