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Extended reports

• Outcome of intensive immunosuppression and autologous stem cell transplantation in patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis is associated with the composition of synovial T cell infiltration (13 April, 2005)

  R J Verburg, R Flierman, J K Sont, F Ponchel, L van Dreunen, E W Levarht, M M Welling, R E M Toes, J D Isaacs, J M van Laar
• A comparison of two primary care trials on tennis elbow: issues of external validity (30 March, 2005)

  N Smidt, M Lewis, E M Hay, D A W M Van der Windt, L M Bouter, P Croft
• Is DAS28 an appropriate tool to assess remission in rheumatoid arthritis? (7 June, 2005)

  H Mäkinen, H Kautiainen, P Hannonen, T Sokka
• Haematopoietic malignancies in rheumatoid arthritis: lymphoma risk and characteristics after exposure to tumour necrosis factor antagonists (20 April, 2005)

  J Askling, C M Fored, E Baecklund, L Brandt, C Backlin, A Ekbom, C Sundström, L Bertilsson, L Cöster, P Geborek, L T Jacobsson, S Lindblad, J Lysholm, S Rantapää-Dahlqvist, T Saxne, L Klareskog, N Feltelius
• Risks of solid cancers in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and after treatment with tumour necrosis factor antagonists (13 April, 2005)

  J Askling, C M Fored, L Brandt, E Baecklund, L Bertilsson, N Feltelius, L Cöster, P Geborek, L T Jacobsson, S Lindblad, J Lysholm, S Rantapää-Dahlqvist, T Saxne, L Klareskog
• Prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis in France: 2001 (30 March, 2005)

  F Guillemin, A Saraux, P Guggenbuhl, C H Roux, P Fardellone, E Le Bihan, A Cantagrel, I Chary-Valckenaere, L Euller-Ziegler, R-M Flipo, R Juvin, J-M Behier, B Fautrel, C Masson, J Coste
• Prevalence of spondyloarthropathies in France: 2001 (7 April, 2005)

  A Saraux, F Guillemin, P Guggenbuhl, C H Roux, P Fardellone, E Le Bihan, A Cantagrel, I Chary-Valckenaere, L Euller-Ziegler, R-M Flipo, R Juvin, J-M Behier, B Fautrel, C Masson, J Coste
• Transdifferentiation of polymorphonuclear neutrophils to dendritic-like cells at the site of inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis: evidence for activation by T cells (18 March, 2005)

  C Iking-Konert, B Ostendorf, O Sander, M Jost, C Wagner, L Joosten, M Schneider, G M Hänsch
• Are there autoantibodies reacting against citrullinated peptides derived from type I and type II collagens in patients with rheumatoid arthritis? (14 September, 2005)

  M-K Koivula, S Åman, A Karjalainen, M Hakala, J Risteli
• Mortality of rheumatoid arthritis in Japan: a longitudinal cohort study (5 May, 2005)

  M Hakoda, H Oiwa, F Kasagi, N Masunari, M Yamada, G Suzuki, S Fujiwara
• Direct costs related to rheumatoid arthritis: the patient perspective (30 March, 2005)

  J L Hülsemann, T Mittendorf, S Merkesdal, S Zeh, S Handelmann, J‐ M von der Schulenburg, H Zeidler, J Ruof
• Radiographic progression in patients with ankylosing spondylitis after 2 years of treatment with the tumour necrosis factor α antibody infliximab (18 March, 2005)

  X Baraliakos, J Listing, M Rudwaleit, J Brandt, J Sieper, J Braun
• Does increasing the grades of the knee osteoarthritis line drawing atlas alter its clinimetric properties? (7 April, 2005)

  C E Wilkinson, A J Carr, M Doherty
• Salivary gland and peripheral blood T helper 1 and 2 cell activity in Sjögren’s syndrome compared with non-Sjögren’s sicca syndrome (7 April, 2005)

  J M van Woerkom, A A Kruize, M J G Wenting - van Wijk, E Knol, I C Bihari, J W G Jacobs, J W J Bijlsma, F P J G Lafeber, J A G van Roon
• Performance of health status measures with a pen based personal digital assistant (20 April, 2005)

  T K Kvien, P Mowinckel, T Heiberg, K L Dammann, Ø Dale, G J Aanerud, T N Alme, T Uhlig
• Altered cytokine expression of peripheral blood lymphocytes in polymyositis and dermatomyositis (13 April, 2005)

  M Aleksza, A Szegedi, P Antal-Szalmás, B Irinyi, L Gergely, A Ponyi, J Hunyadi, S Sipka, M Zeher, G Szegedi, K Dankó
• Close association between valvar heart disease and central nervous system manifestations in the antiphospholipid syndrome (18 March, 2005)

  I Krause, S Lev, A Fraser, M Blank, M Lorber, L Stojanovich, J Rovensky, J Chapman, Y Shoenfeld
• Impact of pregnancy on health related quality of life evaluated prospectively in pregnant women with rheumatic diseases by the SF-36 health survey (18 March, 2005)

  F Förger, M Østensen, A Schumacher, P M Villiger