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Extended reports

• Effects of cyclical etidronate combined with calcitriol versus cyclical etidronate alone on spine and femoral neck bone mineral density in postmenopausal osteoporotic women (1 June, 1998)

  T Masud, B Mulcahy, A V Thompson, S Donnelly, R W Keen, D V Doyle, T D Spector
• Magnetic resonance imaging of the wrist in early rheumatoid arthritis reveals a high prevalence of erosions at four months after symptom onset (1 June, 1998)

  Fiona M McQueen, Neal Stewart, Jeff Crabbe, Elizabeth Robinson, Sue Yeoman, Paul L J Tan, Lachy McLean
• Ultrasound and operative evaluation of arthritic shoulder joints (1 June, 1998)

  E Alasaarela, J Leppilahti, M Hakala
• Linkage of cytokine genes to rheumatoid arthritis. Evidence of genetic heterogeneity (1 June, 1998)

  Sally John, Anne Myerscough, Angela Marlow, Ali Hajeer, Alan Silman, William Ollier, Jane Worthington
• Immunoglobulin allotype gene polymorphisms in systemic sclerosis: interactive effect of MHC class II and KM genes on anticentromere antibody production (1 June, 1998)

  Hideto Kameda, Janardan P Pandey, Junichi Kaburaki, Hidetoshi Inoko, Masataka Kuwana