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Extended reports

• Smoking history, alcohol consumption, and systemic lupus erythematosus: a case-control study (1 August, 1998)

  Carolyn J Hardy, Benedict P Palmer, Kenneth R Muir, Alex J Sutton, Richard J Powell
• Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in childhood: analysis of clinical and immunological findings in 34 patients and comparison with SLE characteristics in adults (1 August, 1998)

  Josep Font, Ricard Cervera, Gerard Espinosa, Lucio Pallarés, Manel Ramos-Casals, Sònia Jiménez, Mario García-Carrasco, Luís Seisdedos, Miguel Ingelmo
• Prediction of postpartum onset of rheumatoid arthritis (1 August, 1998)

  Takashi Iijima, Hisato Tada, Yoh Hidaka, Aya Yagoro, Nobuaki Mitsuda, Toru Kanzaki, Yuji Murata, Nobuyuki Amino
• Corticosteroid irrigation of parotid gland for treatment of xerostomia in patients with Sjögren’s syndrome (1 August, 1998)

  Masahiro Izumi, Katsumi Eguchi, Hideki Nakamura, Yukinori Takagi, Yojiro Kawabe, Takashi Nakamura
• Antigen specificity of antihistone antibodies in systemic sclerosis (1 August, 1998)

  Minoru Hasegawa, Shinichi Sato, Kanako Kikuchi, Kazuhiko Takehara
• Distribution of macrovascular disease in scleroderma (1 August, 1998)

  L Stafford, H Englert, J Gover, J Bertouch
• A comparative phenotypical analysis of rheumatoid nodules and rheumatoid synovium with special reference to adhesion molecules and activation markers (1 August, 1998)

  Dirk Elewaut, Filip De Keyser, Nathalie De Wever, Dominique Baeten, Nancy Van Damme, Gust Verbruggen, Claude Cuvelier, Eric M Veys
• Involvement of simultaneous multiple transcription factor expression, including cAMP responsive element binding protein and OCT-1, for synovial cell outgrowth in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (1 August, 1998)

  Sueshige Wakisaka, Noboru Suzuki, Mitsuhiro Takeno, Yuko Takeba, Hiroko Nagafuchi, Nobuhiko Saito, Hideo Hashimoto, Tetsuya Tomita, Takahiro Ochi, Tsuyoshi Sakane
• Ceramide, a mediator of interleukin 1, tumour necrosis factor α, as well as Fas receptor signalling, induces apoptosis of rheumatoid arthritis synovial cells (1 August, 1998)

  Noboru Mizushima, Hitoshi Kohsaka, Nobuyuki Miyasaka