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Concise reports

• Association between osteoarthritis of the hand and knee in a population of skeletons from London (1 February, 1997)

  H A Waldron
• Chondroitin and keratan sulphate epitopes, glycosaminoglycans, and hyaluronan in progressive versus non-progressive osteoarthritis (1 February, 1997)

  Fiona Fawthrop, Reehana Yaqub, Carolyn Belcher, Michael Bayliss, Joanna Ledingham, Michael Doherty
• Antiperinuclear factors are present in polyarthritis before ACR criteria for rheumatoid arthritis are fulfilled (1 February, 1997)

  Jean-Marie Berthelot, Yves Maugars, Anne Castagné, Marie Audrain, Alain Prost
• The functional affinity of IgM rheumatoid factor is related to the disease duration in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (1 February, 1997)

  A Saraux, B Bendaoud, M Dueymes, P Le Goff, P Youinou
• Fasting enhances mucosal antigen specific B cell responses in rheumatoid arthritis (1 February, 1997)

  C Trollmo, M Verdrengh, A Tarkowski
• Use of monoclonal antibodies to detect disease associated HLA-DRB1 alleles and the shared epitope in rheumatoid arthritis (1 February, 1997)

  Ian Wicks, Geoff McColl, Angela D’Amico, Loretta Dougherty, Brian Tait
• Characterisation of follicular dendritic cells in labial salivary glands of patients with primary Sjogren syndrome: comparison with tonsillar lymphoid follicles (1 February, 1997)

  Karim Elias Aziz, Peter J McCluskey, Denis Wakefield
• Methotrexate treatment in patients with adult onset Still’s disease—retrospective study of 13 Japanese cases (1 February, 1997)

  Takao Fujii, Masashi Akizuki, Hideto Kameda, Mami Matsumura, Michito Hirakata, Tadashi Yoshida, Taeko Shinozawa, Tsuneyo Mimori