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Extended reports

• Diagnostic classification of shoulder disorders: interobserver agreement and determinants of disagreement (1 May, 1999)

  Andrea F de Winter, Marielle P Jans, Rob J P M Scholten, Walter Devillé, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg, Lex M Bouter
• Diagnostic evaluation of classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis and reactive arthritis in an early synovitis outpatient clinic (1 May, 1999)

  J L Hülsemann, H Zeidler
• Prospective six year follow up of patients withdrawn from a randomised study comparing parenteral gold salt and methotrexate (1 May, 1999)

  Oliver Sander, Gertraud Herborn, Elisabeth Bock, Rolf Rau
• Does sulphasalazine cause drug induced systemic lupus erythematosus? No effect evident in a prospective randomised trial of 200 rheumatoid patients treated with sulphasalazine or auranofin over five years (1 May, 1999)

  Margaret-Mary Gordon, Duncan R Porter, Hilary A Capell
• Anti-heat shock protein 70 kDa and 90 kDa antibodies in serum of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (1 May, 1999)

  G Hayem, M De Bandt, E Palazzo, S Roux, B Combe, J F Eliaou, J Sany, M F Kahn, O Meyer
• Macrophage inflammatory protein 1 alpha expression by synovial fluid neutrophils in rheumatoid arthritis (1 May, 1999)

  Yoshimi Hatano, Tsuyoshi Kasama, Hideaki Iwabuchi, Ryosuke Hanaoka, Hiroko T Takeuchi, Lu Jing, Yoshiaki Mori, Kazuo Kobayashi, Masao Negishi, Hirotsugu Ide, Mitsuru Adachi
• HLA-DRB1 alleles associated with polymyalgia rheumatica in northern Italy: correlation with disease severity (1 May, 1999)

  Carlo Salvarani, Luigi Boiardi, Vilma Mantovani, Andrea Ranzi, Fabrizio Cantini, Ignazio Olivieri, Michela Bragliani, Elisa Collina, PierLuigi Macchioni
• Increased apoptotic peripheral blood neutrophils in systemic lupus erythematosus: relations with disease activity, antibodies to double stranded DNA, and neutropenia (1 May, 1999)

  P A Courtney, A D Crockard, K Williamson, A E Irvine, R J Kennedy, A L Bell
• Prevalence of joint pain is higher among women in rural Japan than urban Japanese-American women in Hawaii (1 May, 1999)

  Kiyoshi Aoyagi, Philip D Ross, Chun Huang, Richard D Wasnich, Takuo Hayashi, Tai-ichiro Takemoto