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Extended reports

• Interleukin 17 synergises with tumour necrosis factor α to induce cartilage destruction in vitro (1 October, 2002)

  R L van Bezooijen, L van der Wee-Pals, S E Papapoulos, C W G M Löwik
• Power Doppler sonography in the assessment of synovial tissue of the knee joint in rheumatoid arthritis: a preliminary experience (1 October, 2002)

  M Carotti, F Salaffi, P Manganelli, D Salera, B Simonetti, W Grassi
• Clinical outcome in 22 patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with B lymphocyte depletion (1 October, 2002)

  M J Leandro, J C W Edwards, G Cambridge
• Mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated actively from the time of diagnosis (1 October, 2002)

  R Peltomaa, L Paimela, H Kautiainen, M Leirisalo-Repo
• Prospective two year follow up study comparing novel and conventional imaging procedures in patients with arthritic finger joints (1 October, 2002)

  M Backhaus, G R Burmester, D Sandrock, D Loreck, D Hess, A Scholz, S Blind, B Hamm, M Bollow
• Ultrasonography of entheseal insertions in the lower limb in spondyloarthropathy (1 October, 2002)

  P V Balint, D Kane, H Wilson, I B McInnes, R D Sturrock
• Annual incidence of inflammatory joint diseases in a population based study in southern Sweden (1 October, 2002)

  M K Söderlin, O Börjesson, H Kautiainen, T Skogh, M Leirisalo-Repo
• Synovial macrophage-osteoclast differentiation in inflammatory arthritis (1 October, 2002)

  L Danks, A Sabokbar, R Gundle, N A Athanasou