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Extended reports

• Prevalence of hip osteoarthritis in Iceland (1 April, 1999)

  Thorvaldur Ingvarsson, Gunnar Hägglund, L Stefan Lohmander
• Validity of histopathological grading of articular cartilage from osteoarthritic knee joints (1 April, 1999)

  Keld Ostergaard, Claus B Andersen, Jorgen Petersen, Klaus Bendtzen, Donald M Salter
• Clinical features and outcome of septic arthritis in a single UK Health District 1982–1991 (1 April, 1999)

  V C Weston, A C Jones, N Bradbury, F Fawthrop, M Doherty
• Combination therapy in early rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised, controlled, double blind 52 week clinical trial of sulphasalazine and methotrexate compared with the single components (1 April, 1999)

  Maxime Dougados, Bernard Combe, Alain Cantagrel, Philippe Goupille, Patrick Olive, Manfred Schattenkirchner, S Meusser, L Paimela, Rolf Rau, Henning Zeidler, Marjatta Leirisalo-Repo, Kristiina Peldan
• Clinical and laboratory manifestations of elderly onset psoriatic arthritis: a comparison with younger onset disease (1 April, 1999)

  Leonardo Punzi, Margherita Pianon, Paola Rossini, Franco Schiavon, Pier Franca Gambari
• Remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting oedema (RS3PE) syndrome: a prospective follow up and magnetic resonance imaging study (1 April, 1999)

  Fabrizio Cantini, Carlo Salvarani, Ignazio Olivieri, Libero Barozzi, Luigi Macchioni, Laura Niccoli, Angela Padula, Pietro Pavlica, Luigi Boiardi
• Monocyte activation in patients with Wegener’s granulomatosis (1 April, 1999)

  Anneke C Muller Kobold, Cees G M Kallenberg, Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert