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Concise reports

• Hepatitis C virus infection in ‘primary’ Sjögren’s syndrome: prevalence and clinical significance in a series of 90 patients (1 March, 1997)

  Mario García-Carrasco, Manel Ramos, Ricard Cervera, Josep Font, Josep Vidal, Francisco J Muñoz, Carles Miret, Gerard Espinosa, Miguel Ingelmo
• Late onset spondylarthropathy: clinical and biological comparison with early onset patients (1 March, 1997)

  Didier Caplanne, Florence Tubach, Jean Marie Le Parc
• Association of gut inflammation with increased serum IgA class Klebsiella antibody concentrations in patients with axial ankylosing spondylitis (AS): implication for different aetiopathogenetic mechanisms for axial and peripheral AS? (1 March, 1997)

  Outi Mäki-Ikola, Marjatta Leirisalo-Repo, Ulla Turunen, Kaisa Granfors
• Detection of oncostatin M in synovial fluid from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (1 March, 1997)

  Wang Hui, Michael Bell, Graeme Carroll
• Hydroxychloroquine and visual screening in a rheumatology outpatient clinic (1 March, 1997)

  D J Grierson
• Influence of the HLA-DRβ shared epitope on susceptibility to and clinical expression of rheumatoid arthritis in Chilean patients (1 March, 1997)

  Alfonso González, Sandra Nicovani, Loreto Massardo, Verónica Aguirre, Vinicio Cervilla, Jerry S Lanchbury, Sergio Jacobelli
• Thrombocytopenia in the antiphospholipid syndrome (1 March, 1997)

  Maria José Cuadrado, Fedza Mujic, Elisa Muñoz, Munther A Khamashta, Graham R V Hughes
• Correlation between conventional disease activity measures in juvenile chronic arthritis (1 March, 1997)

  Angelo Ravelli, Stefania Viola, Nicolino Ruperto, Barbara Corsi, Giuseppina Ballardini, Alberto Martini
• Bisphosphonate therapy of reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome (1 March, 1997)

  S Adami, V Fossaluzza, D Gatti, E Fracassi, V Braga
• Endomyocardial fibrosis in Behçet’s disease (1 March, 1997)

  Du Le Thi Huong, Bertrand Wechsler, Thomas Papo, Dominique de Zuttere, Olivier Bletry, Anne Hernigou, Annick Delcourt, Pierre Godeau, Jean-Charles Piette